RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Technologies for the bioconversion of methane into more valuable products A1 Cantera Ruiz de Pellón, Sara A1 Muñoz Torre, Raúl A1 Lebrero Fernández, Raquel A1 López, Juan Carlos A1 Rodríguez Muñoz, Yadira A1 García Encina, Pedro Antonio K1 Biorrefinería K1 Metano K1 Bio-refinery K1 Methane AB Methane, with a global warming potential twenty five times higher than that of CO2 is the second most important greenhouse gas emitted nowadays. Its bioconversion into microbial molecules with a high retail value in the industry offers a potential cost-efficient and environmentally friendly solution for mitigating anthropogenic diluted CH4-laden streams. Methane bio-refinery for the production of different compounds such as ectoine, feed proteins, biofuels, bioplastics and polysaccharides, apart from new bioproducts characteristic of methanotrophic bacteria, has been recently tested in discontinuous and continuous bioreactors with promising results. This review constitutes a critical discussion about the state-of-the-art of the potential and research niches of biotechnologies applied in a CH4 biorefinery approach. PB Elsevier SN 0958-1669 YR 2018 FD 2018 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/30102 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/30102 LA eng NO Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Volume 50, 2018, Pages 128-135 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 26-abr-2024