Olive Oil Wastewater as a Renewable Resource for Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates

Renewable Polymers: Synthesis, Processing, and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 175-219

  Valentino, Francesco ^a   Villano, Marianna ^a   Bertin, Lorenzo ^b   Beccari, Mario ^a   Majone, Mauro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Feast and famine; Mixed microbial cultures; Olive oil mill wastewater; Polyhydroxyalkanoates; Sequencing batch reactor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886683456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118217689.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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