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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2018
National Chi Nan University, Nantou County, TW;
Yung-Pin Tsai, Nantou County, TW;
Meng-Shan Lu, Kaohsiung, TW;
Chih-Chi Yang, Miaoli County, TW;
Hao Shiu, New Taipei, TW;
Jan-Wei Lin, Nantou County, TW;
NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY, Nantou County, TW;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for extracting polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), which comprises a pre-process step and an extraction step: removing water from waste sludge containing microorganisms in the pre-process step so that the waste sludge containing microorganisms has a water content of less than 40%; and applying a high-voltage pulsed electric field to the waste sludge during the extraction step to destroy the microorganisms and release the PHAs, wherein the high-voltage pulsed electric field is between 50 volts and 400 volts, an application time of the high-voltage pulsed electric field is between 5 seconds and 90 seconds, and an application frequency of the high-voltage pulsed electric field is between 500 Hz and 1000 Hz, thereby extracting the PHAs in the case of few chemicals.