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Carbon capture with bacteria to make CaCO3
A team of scientists in India have discovered a low-cost method of converting CO2 emissions into useful building material. The researchers developed a method to use enzymes to turn CO2 into calcium carbonate, which used in cement or limestone aggregate for building roads. CaCO3 is typically found in rocky materials such as limestone and chalk. The project uses 7 bacteria enzymes to speed up chemical reactions and convert CO2 to calcium carbonate. - Read More
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Brewery Waste Turned into Fish food, Thanks to Microbes
Sludge from Brewery waste can be turned into bacterial protein rich fish food?We can convert 30,000 to 35,000 pounds of bacterial protein everyday," says Logan. "Regular fish meal has 40 percent protein?ours has 65 percent protein.? Best of all, the entire set-up to accomplish this task is incredibly low cost and low maintenance for the brewery....interesting stuff...what was earlier waste is not turned into a value-added product, and at a super low cost, using microbes! - Read More
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The bacteria Ralstonia eutropha is a miniature bioplastic factory
The most abundant PHA is poly(3-hydroxy-butyrate) (PHB), which bacteria synthesize from acetyl-CoA. Growing on glucose, the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha can amass up to 85% of its dry weight in PHB, which makes this microorganism a miniature bioplastic factory. - Read More
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Topics : Bio Technology
PHB synthesis by bacteria from biomass
PHB can be synthesized by various bacteria in high yields (< 95%). It is accumulated in granules and has to be separated from the biomass by specific processes
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Topics : Bioenergy
Anaeobic bacteria that can use synthetis gas and ferment it
There are a number of anaerobic bacteria in addition to C. ljungdahlii that can utilize the components of synthesis gas (CO, CO2, and H2) as carbon and energy sources (for fermentation?) : Clostridium thermoaceticum, Clostridium autoethanogenum, Peptostreptoccus productus, Eubacteriam limosum, Butyribacterium mehylotrophicum, and Clostridium acetobutylicum. - Read More
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