- Title
- Bioplastics from microbial and agricultural biomass
- Creator
- Kulanthaisamy, Mohanrasu; Guru Raj Rao, R.; Sivaprakash, G.; Angelin Swetha, T.; Bora, Abhispa; Balaji, P.; Panneerselvan, Logeshwaran; Arun, A.
- Relation
- Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Natural Materials-Based Green Composites 2: Biomass p. 413-438
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95183-8.00007-X
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- In recent years, humankind has been benefitted in numerous ways by exploiting petroleum-based plastics, and concurrently, plastics production has risen with extensive application in broad areas. However, several problems are associated with a higher amount of plastic usages, such as global climate change, ocean deposition, the carbon dioxide released when incineration of synthetic plastics, and the global need for solid waste management. As a result of nonbiodegradable plastic production increased, the bio-based and biodegradable polymer production opens up for biodegradable polymers with reduced fossil fuel utilization. The biodegradable polymer production from two different biological sources of (1) from plant sources (starch, cellulose, chitin, and protein) and (2) microbial sources (polyhydroxyalkanoates, poly(hydroxy butyrate-co hydroxy alkanoates), poly (hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxy valerate) (PHBV), poly (hydroxy butyrate-co-hydroxy hexanoate) (PHBHx), poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxy octanoate) (PHBO), poly(hydroxybutyrate co-hydroxy octa decanoate) (PHBOd), and poly(lactic acid)). Therefore, these types of biopolymers are readily biodegradable and are obtained from renewable sources. This chapter deals with biodegradable polymer production, structure, properties, and possible applications in other areas.
- Subject
- biodegradation; biopolymers; cellulose; polyhydroxyalkanoates; starch; SDG 2; SDG 11; SDG 12; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1517711
- Identifier
- uon:57155
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780323951838
- Language
- eng
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