Water at 25°C enters an open heating tank at a rate of 10 kg h^-1. Liquid water leaves the tank at 88°C at a rate of 9 kg h^-1; 1 kg h^-1 water vapour is lost from the system through evaporation. At steady state, what is the rate of heat input to the system?

h (liquid water at 25°C = 104.8 kJ kg^-1) 

h (liquid water at 88°C = 368.5 kJ kg^-1) 

h (saturated steam at 88°C = 2656.9 kJ kg^-1)

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

The main function of baffles in a bioreactor are

P. to prevent a vortex

Q. to increase aeration

R. to reduce interfacial area of oxygen transfer

S. to reduce aeration rate

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

A bacterial culture having a specific oxygen uptake rate of 5 mmol O2 (g DCW)⁻¹ h⁻¹ is being grown aerobically in a fed-batch reactor. The maximum value of the volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient is 0.18 s⁻¹ for the stirred tank bioreactor and the critical dissolved oxygen concentration is 20% of the saturation concentration (8 mg L⁻¹). The maximum density to which the cells can be grown in the fed-batch process, without the growth being limited by oxygen transfer, is approximately

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

For scaling up of a bioreactor, the following parameter is assumed to be constant

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

Power number, also called Newton’s number, is defined as a dimensionless parameter relating to:

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#Section 6: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

The lag phase of the bacterial growth curve is marked by

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#Section 6: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

Late log phase of the bacterial growth curve