Interesting post, surfed over here from the academic Spotlight efforts from coinbitgold.
Did i understand it correctly, PHA is manufactured inside the bacteria inself, and doesn't goes through any conventional polymerisation process using C2 as a base monomer? If so, then the bottleneck is still economies of scale... a conventional large scale PE gas phase reactor have a reactor throughput of 40 tons/hr....
To be commercially feasible, i suppose the fermentation process have to be faster than 40tons/hr before it can compete with the conventional material. Keep up the positive efforts, and looking forward to breakthroughs !
Yes, you understood me :). Actually the process is scalable to industry, the thing is that it is not economically profitable due to the substrates costs and the procedures of extraction of PHA from bacteria.
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