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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
May. 22, 2015
Paques I.p. B.v., Balk, NL;
Hendrik Dijkman, IJIst, NL;
Yang Jiang, Delft, NL;
Jelmer Tamis, Delft, NL;
Leonie Marang, Den Hoorn, NL;
Robbert Kleerebezem, The Hague, NL;
Marinus Cornelis Maria Van Loosdrecht, The Hague, NL;
PAQUES I.P. B.V., Balk, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a process for producing a microbial storage compound, in particular polyhydroxyalkanoate, using micro-organisms capable of accumulating such microbial storage compound, wherein such micro-organisms are selected and the microbial storage compound is accumulated by carrying out the so-called feast phase of the selection step and the accumulation of the microbial storage compound in selected micro-organisms in the same reactor and carrying out the so-called famine phase of the selection step in a separate, smaller, reactor.