A continuous process is set up for treatment of wastewater. Each day, 10⁵ kg cellulose and 10³ kg bacteria enter in the feed stream, while 10⁴ kg cellulose and 1.5 x 10⁴ kg bacteria leave in the effluent. The rate of cellulose digestion by the bacteria is 7 x 10⁴ kg d^-1. The rate of bacterial growth is 2 x 10⁴ kg d^-1 ; the rate of cell death by lysis is 5 x 10² kg d^-1. Write balances for cellulose and bacteria in the system.

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#Question id: 14170

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

Unsweetened condensed milk is a shelf-stable canned milk product. If 100kg of fresh milk, containing 87% water and the rest milk solids, is condensed using an evaporator to remove 60% of the water from the fresh milk, calculate:

The final mass and composition of condensed milk produced

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#Question id: 14171

#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:

In a batch reactor of volume 10^5 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry. Determine the concentration and total amount of glucose in the nutrient medium?

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#Question id: 14171

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:

In a batch reactor of volume 10^5 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry. Determine the concentration and total amount of glucose in the nutrient medium?

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#Question id: 14172

#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:

In a batch reactor of volume 105 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry. Determine the yield coefficients YX/S (biomass/glucose)?

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#Question id: 14172

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:

In a batch reactor of volume 105 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry. Determine the yield coefficients YX/S (biomass/glucose)?

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#Question id: 14173

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:

In a batch reactor of volume 10^5 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry. Determine the yield coefficient YX/O2 (biomass/oxygen)?