Affiliation:
1. Experiential Engineering Education Department, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd., Glassboro, NJ, 08028, USA
Abstract
An essential part of producing microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates and polylactide, as well as other bioplastics, is fermentation. The fermentation process can greatly affect the cost-effectiveness of bioplastics. This chapter mainly focuses on various aspects of the fermentation for production of bioplastics such as polyhydroxyalkanoates and polylactide. It includes the various microorganisms used for production. These microorganisms were extracted from different sources such as soil, industrial wastewater, and activated sludge. It also details the various modes of fermentation, including sequencing batch reactors, fed-batch, continuous reactors, and solid-state fermentation.
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry