Integrating PHA production with municipal wastewater treatment

RESEARCH GOALS
The project objectives are to:
• Unravel and exploit the underlying mechanisms that favour
selective growth of the PHA-producing microorganisms over
non-PHA accumulating microorganisms in the PHA accumulation
process.
• Establish robust bioprocess methods to accommodate variability
of feedstock VFA composition and concentration.
• Maximize the polymer quality with molecular weight in the
accumulation process and define boundary conditions of
environment(s) to conserve molecular weight in the production
of the primary product as a renewable resource from the WWTP
– a dried PHA-rich biomass.