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Lactobacillus casei is propagated under essentially anaerobic conditions to provide a starter culture for manufacture of Swiss cheese. The culture produces lactic acid as a by-product of energy metabolism. The system has the following characteristics:

                                                                 

 

A stirred fermenter is operated in fed-batch mode at quasisteady state with a feed flow rate of 4 m3 h-1 and feed substrate concentration of 80 kg m-3. After 6 h, the liquid volume is 40 m3. What mass of cells is produced after 6 h fed-batch operation?

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