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#Question id: 21970
#Unit 12. Biochemical Engineering
The logistic equation for growth of a bacterial culture is given by
Where X and Xo are biomass concentration, k and beta are constants. The model depicts that initially when x is small, the growth pattern of the culture would be
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#Question id: 21973
#Unit 12. Biochemical Engineering
Continuous stirred tank fermenter is characterized by (biomass concentration X kg/m3, residual substrate is S kg/m3, Sf=substrate concentration in feed kg/m3, Dilution rate = D and μm>>D and Km<Sf, XD= the biomass productivity kg/m3h. If the dilution rate is doubled to 2D then the new steady state values in comparison with earlier steady state is characterized by
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#Question id: 21979
#Unit 12. Biochemical Engineering
Exponentially growing cells increase 10 fold in 10 hours, the time required to increase 5 fold will be ………hours
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#Question id: 21502
#Unit 12. Biochemical Engineering
Chemostat cultivation is carried out at steady state with a dilution rate of 0.1 h-1 . Given μm = 1.1 h-1and Ks=0.1 g/L. What will be steady state substrate concentration?
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#Question id: 21046
#Unit 12. Biochemical Engineering
An organism obeys Andrews model for growth inhibition with Ks and Ki values of 0.01 g/l and 1.0 g/l respectively. If the substrate is present at an initial concentration of 1.0g/l, the specific growth rate of the culture upon entering log phase would be approximately:
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#Question id: 21052
#Unit 12. Biochemical Engineering
For a cell growth process, the units for yield, productivity and titre are:
