SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION REACTORS - FROM LAB SCALE TO PILOT-PLANT

Relatively many workers in the world are studying different aspects in SSF processes but few are working on reactor design and scale-up. Fro m about 10 years, we are developing reactors from lab scale to pilot p lant, based on the same technology, reactor design and flowsheet to al low fermentation with a deep layer (up to 1 m in the pilot plant). The se reactors have all a forced aeration and the possibility or not to a gitate. Regulations of temperature and water content of the culture ar e monitored by a special device.