Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is known to be temporarily stored as carbon and energy storage by microorganisms in activated sludge.On the other hand,PHB is a thermoplastic with remarkable characteristics of biodegradability.The possibility of using activated sludge for the production of PHB was investigated in this paper,focusing on increasing the PHB content of activated sludge.The experimental results show that the activated sludge without acclimatization especially with acetate as excessive carbon resource,accumulated PHB of 11.85% MLSS(Mixed Liquor Sespended Solid) in the anaerobic process;12.95% in the aerobic process;18.49% in the aerobic-anaerobic process.The structrue of the PHB product was determined by 1 HNMR.
