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Title: A flexible microbial co-culture platform for simultaneous utilization of methane and carbon dioxide from gas feedstocks

Abstract

A new co-cultivation technology is presented that converts greenhouse gasses, CH4 and CO2, into microbial biomass. The methanotrophic bacterium, Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20z, was coupled to a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus PCC 7002 via oxygenic photosynthesis. The system exhibited robust growth on diverse gas mixtures ranging from biogas to those representative of a natural gas feedstock. A continuous processes was developed on a synthetic natural gas feed that achieved steady-state by imposing coupled light and O2 limitations on the cyanobacterium and methanotroph, respectively. Continuous co-cultivation resulted in an O2 depleted reactor and does not require CH4/O2 mixtures to be fed into the system, thereby enhancing process safety considerations over traditional methanotroph mono-culture platforms. This co-culture technology is scalable with respect to its ability to utilize different gas streams and its biological components constructed from model bacteria that can be metabolically customized to produce a range of biofuels and bioproducts.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1341100
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1341742; OSTI ID: 1347845
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-122746
Journal ID: ISSN 0960-8524; S0960852417300056; PII: S0960852417300056
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Published Article
Journal Name:
Bioresource Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Bioresource Technology Journal Volume: 228 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0960-8524
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; methane; carbon dioxide; co-culture; biogas; natural gas; methanotroph; cyanobacteria; Bacteria; Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Citation Formats

Hill, Eric A., Chrisler, William B., Beliaev, Alex S., and Bernstein, Hans C. A flexible microbial co-culture platform for simultaneous utilization of methane and carbon dioxide from gas feedstocks. United Kingdom: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.111.
Hill, Eric A., Chrisler, William B., Beliaev, Alex S., & Bernstein, Hans C. A flexible microbial co-culture platform for simultaneous utilization of methane and carbon dioxide from gas feedstocks. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.111
Hill, Eric A., Chrisler, William B., Beliaev, Alex S., and Bernstein, Hans C. 2017. "A flexible microbial co-culture platform for simultaneous utilization of methane and carbon dioxide from gas feedstocks". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.111.
@article{osti_1341100,
title = {A flexible microbial co-culture platform for simultaneous utilization of methane and carbon dioxide from gas feedstocks},
author = {Hill, Eric A. and Chrisler, William B. and Beliaev, Alex S. and Bernstein, Hans C.},
abstractNote = {A new co-cultivation technology is presented that converts greenhouse gasses, CH4 and CO2, into microbial biomass. The methanotrophic bacterium, Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20z, was coupled to a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus PCC 7002 via oxygenic photosynthesis. The system exhibited robust growth on diverse gas mixtures ranging from biogas to those representative of a natural gas feedstock. A continuous processes was developed on a synthetic natural gas feed that achieved steady-state by imposing coupled light and O2 limitations on the cyanobacterium and methanotroph, respectively. Continuous co-cultivation resulted in an O2 depleted reactor and does not require CH4/O2 mixtures to be fed into the system, thereby enhancing process safety considerations over traditional methanotroph mono-culture platforms. This co-culture technology is scalable with respect to its ability to utilize different gas streams and its biological components constructed from model bacteria that can be metabolically customized to produce a range of biofuels and bioproducts.},
doi = {10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.111},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1341100}, journal = {Bioresource Technology},
issn = {0960-8524},
number = C,
volume = 228,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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