EFFECT OF INLET OXYGEN CONCENTRATION ON CONTINUOUS CULTIVATION OF BAKERS-YEAST IN A CONVERGING-DIVERGING TUBE AIRLIFT FERMENTER

Authors
GHOSH TK BHATTACHARYYA BC
Citation
Tk. Ghosh et Bc. Bhattacharyya, EFFECT OF INLET OXYGEN CONCENTRATION ON CONTINUOUS CULTIVATION OF BAKERS-YEAST IN A CONVERGING-DIVERGING TUBE AIRLIFT FERMENTER, Journal of fermentation and bioengineering, 76(2), 1993, pp. 153-156
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Food Science & Tenology","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Journal of fermentation and bioengineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
0922338X
Volume
76
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
153 - 156
Database
ISI
SICI code
0922-338X(1993)76:2<153:EOIOCO>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Continuous cultivation of Baker's yeast was carried out in a convergin g-diverging tube airlift fermentor. The dilution rate was varied from 0.08 to 0.165 h-1. The residual sugar conc. was maintained below 0.15 g/l. Pure oxygen was sparged with air to maintain 50% oxygen saturatio n. The trend of the variation of cell mass, X, with the reciprocal of the dilution rate, D, did not correspond to the Monod chemostat model. The maximum dilution rate was found to be 0.165 h-1 for a cell mass e nhancement of 30%.