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Lipid-based biofuel production from wastewater
Muller, Emilie; Sheik, Abdul; Wilmes, Paul
2014In Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 30, p. 9-16
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Abstract :
[en] Increasing world population, urbanization and industrialization are driving global increases in wastewater production. Wastewater comprises significant amounts of chemical energy primarily in the form of organic molecules (in particular lipids), which are currently not being recovered comprehensively. Within biological wastewater treatment (BWWT) systems, specialized microorganisms assimilate and store lipids anaerobically. These intracellular stores represent interesting feedstocks for biofuel synthesis. Here, we review our current understanding of the genetic and functional basis for bacterial lipid accumulation and processing, and relate this to lipid accumulating bacterial populations which occur naturally in BWWT plants. A grand challenge for microbial ecologists and engineers now lies in translating this knowledge into the design of new BWWT processes for the comprehensive recovery of lipids from wastewater streams and their subsequent conversion into biofuel.
Research center :
- Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB): Eco-Systems Biology (Wilmes Group)
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Microbiology
Biotechnology
Author, co-author :
Muller, Emilie ;  University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)
Sheik, Abdul ;  University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)
Wilmes, Paul ;  University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Lipid-based biofuel production from wastewater
Publication date :
2014
Journal title :
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
ISSN :
0958-1669
Publisher :
Elsevier Science
Special issue title :
Chemical Biotechnology
Volume :
30
Pages :
9-16
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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