Assessing biodegradability of plastics based on poly(vinyl alcohol) and protein wastes

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70883521%3A28110%2F03%3A63501392" target="_blank" >RIV/70883521:28110/03:63501392 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
—
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
—

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assessing biodegradability of plastics based on poly(vinyl alcohol) and protein wastes
Original language description
Research was conducted into biodegradability of mixeds polymer films based on poly(vinyl alcohol), protein hydrolyzate (collagen hydrolyzate from wastes after chrome tanning) and sglycerol in an aqueous aerobic environment. Evaluation of biodegradation was based on carbon dioxide produced in the gas phase. Pure PVAL was degraded by a current mixed culture for water-treatment (unadapted) only after an approx. 10-day lag phase; during breakdown of mixed film the protein component and glycerol were brokendown first and PVAL degradation occurred in the second stage. Biodegradation could be well described by 1st-order formal chemical kinetics. Repeated degradation by an adapted culture proceeded in a single stage with considerably shorter lag phase (< 30 h) at a simultaneously approx. 1.5-fold greater breakdown rate (rate constants). During degradation of substrates containing PVAL, microbiological tests proved an approx. 100-fold increase in numbers of PVAL-degrading bacteria. Added prote
Czech name
—
Czech description
—

Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
DJ - Pollution and water control
OECD FORD branch
—

Publication year
2003
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Similar results(10)