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To meet the need for studies of anaerobic microbial and animal cell culture
s involving much lower heat effects as compared to aerobic microbial cultur
es, a bench scale calorimeter, Bio-RCl, has been improved for achieving a h
igher long-term sensitivity. This newly improved Bio-RCl was used for heat
measurement of anaerobic growth of Lactobacillus helveticus. The results sh
owed that the bench-scale calorimetry has powerful potential for on-line mo
nitoring and control of anaerobic bioprocesses as well as fundamental studi
es, such as stoichiometry, thermodynamics and kinetics of cellular growth.