An industrial waste-water stream is fed to a stirred-tank reactor continuously and the cells are recycled back to the reactor from the bottom of the sedimentation tank placed after the reactor. The following are given for the system: F = 100 l/h; S0 = 5000 mg/l; mm = 0.25 h-1 ; Ks = 200 mg/l; α (recycle ratio) = 0.6; C (cell concentration factor) = 2; Y ^M _X/S = 0.4. The effluent concentration is desired to be 100 mg/l.  Determine the cell concentration in the reactor and in the recycle stream.

_____________

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 27317

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

In microbial cultivation, the expression for product synthesis rp = αµX + βX denotes

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 27318

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

The specific productivity (qp) of an enzyme production is fitted linearly with specific growth rate (μ) of a fungal organism according to the equation qp = α.μ + β. The estimated values of constants α and β are 0.0006 and 25 respectively. The enzyme production kinetics is

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 27319

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

Which one of the following statements is FALSE. Microbial secondary metabolites are

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 27320

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

Two organisms A and B with the same µmax and Yx/s are cultivated independently in batch culture. They have Ks values of 1 g.l-1 and 3 g.l-1 respectively. Given that the initial substrate concentration was 5 g/l, which of the following is TRUE after complete exhaustion of the substrate?

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 27321

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

An organism exhibits Monod growth with the following growth parameters, µm= 0.6 h-1 & Ks = 4 g/l. The specific growth rate, µ, of the organism at a substrate concentration of 2 g/l would be:

TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 27322

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

If the maintenance coefficient (m) is significantly high, then with reduction in specific growth rate: