Fluidized bed bioreactors provide higher mass transfer rates than packed bed bioreactors because

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#Question id: 19913

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is being grown in a chemostat converts glucose to biomass, ethanol, glycerol and carbon dioxide. At steady state, the concentration of glucose, biomass, ethanol and glycerol will

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#Question id: 19914

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

In aerobic yeast fermentation for production of citric acid from alkanes using a fed-batch culture, why alkanes are slowly fed to the yeast?

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#Question id: 19915

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

A continuous reactor has a dilution rate of 0.5 h^-1. Its residence time would be

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#Question id: 19916

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

Which of the following is used to calculate mass of substrate in the reactor?

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#Question id: 19928

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

A chemostat has a liquid volume of 2 litres and is being fed at a rate of 4 litres per hour. Dilution rate for this reactor will be

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#Question id: 19929

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

he growth of an organism on glucose is described by the following Monod model parameters: μm = 0.5 h^-1 and Ks =0.1 g.l^-1, if the concentration of glucose in the feed is 10 g.l^-1 and the dilution rate is set to 0.4 h^-1, then the steady state concentration of glucose in the effluent will be