title: Kinetic model for microbial growth and desulphurisation with Enterobacter sp.
abstract: Biodesulphurisation was investigated by using Enterobacter sp. D4, which can selectively desulphurise and convert dibenzothiophene into 2-hydroxybiphenyl (2-HBP). The experimental values of growth, substrate consumption and product generation were obtained at 95 % confidence level of the fitted values using three models: Hinshelwood equation, Luedeking-Piret and Luedeking-Piret-like equations. The average error values between experimental values and fitted values were less than 10 %. These kinetic models describe all the experimental data with good statistical parameters. The production of 2-HBP in Enterobacter sp. was by "coupled growth".
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Green Process of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi, 832003, China, liulong0723@sina.com.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Zhiguo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Jianjiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Xiaolin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D019149:Bioreactors / Q000382:microbiology*; D001713:Biphenyl Compounds / Q000378:metabolism; D004754:Enterobacter / Q000378:metabolism*; D005285:Fermentation; D007700:Kinetics; D013455:Sulfur / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D013876:Thiophenes / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001713:Biphenyl Compounds; D013876:Thiophenes; D013455:Sulfur; C004369:2-phenylphenol; C016366:dibenzothiophene