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#Question id: 41077


Q. In a chemostat operating at steady state, the specific growth rate of a bacterial culture is 0.2 h⁻¹. The true biomass yield coefficient on glucose (YX/S) is 0.5 g/g, and the cell maintenance coefficient (mS) is 0.05 g/(g·h).
The specific glucose uptake rate (qS) of the culture in g/(g·h) is ________ .


#Unit 12. Biochemical Engineering
  1. 0.16
  2. 0.26
  3. 1.50
  4. 0.65