Mathematical model of self-cycling fermentation.
This article presents a mathematical model for biomass, limiting substrate, and dissolved oxygen concentrations during stable operation of self-cycling fermentation (SCF). Laboratory experiments using the bacterium Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1 and ethanol as the limiting substrate were performed to validate the model. A computer simulation developed from the model successfully matched experimental SCF intracycle trends and end-of-cycle results and, most importantly, settled into an unimposed periodicity characteristic of stable SCF operation. (c) 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Wincure
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Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, 3480 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7 Canada.
Cooper
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