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#Question id: 27175


A bacterial culture having a specific oxygen uptake rate of 5 mmol O2 (g- DCW)-1h-1 is being grown aerobically in a fed-batch reactor. The maximum value of the volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient is 0.18 s 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

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology
  1. 14 g L-1 
  2. 26 g L-1 
  3. 32 g L-1 
  4. 65 g L-1