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Long Huang1, Zhiqiang Chen2, Qinxue Wen2
1School of Water Conservancy and Environment Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
Abstract:
The suitable feeding strategy considering both substrate preference (enrichment stage) and flexible regulation (PHA accumulation stage) were investigated, respectively, based on intracellular polymers synthesis peculiarities of the three types of cultures (M-Ac, M-Pr and M-Bu), which were enriched correspondingly using acetic type, propionic type and butyric type substrate. Compared to M-Ac and M-Bu cultures, maximum PHA content (PHAm) of M-Pr exhibited the most stable responses to varying fractions of propionic acid (fPr) of the substrate. The substrate composed of acetic acid and propionic acid (Mix-AP) demonstrated higher efficiency in regulation of polymer composition than that composed of butyric acid and propionic acid (Mix-BP). For the whole process of three-stage MC PHA production, propionic acid-dominated acidification products should be used for the long-term enrichment of PHA producers, and acidification products mainly composed of propionic and acetic acid are preferred considering the regulation of polymer composition in PHA accumulation stage.
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