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Polyhydroxyalkanoate or PHA is a biodegradable plastic. This could be produced biologically using volatile fatty acids from palm oil mill effluents.
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Why is it important?
Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is a waste from the mills. It could find a beneficial use to produce valuable products.
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This page is a summary of: Production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) by Ralstonia eutropha JMP 134 with volatile fatty acids from palm oil mill effluent as precursors, Water Science & Technology, July 2015, IWA Publishing,
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2015.391.
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