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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 24-nov-2024