#Question id: 14636
#Section 1: Engineering Mathematics
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#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology
#Question id: 18149
#Section 2: General Biology
#Question id: 14319
#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology
Both Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast and Zymomonas mobilis bacteria produce ethanol from glucose under anaerobic conditions without external electron acceptors. The biomass yield from glucose is 0.11 g g-1 for yeast and 0.05 g g-I for Z. mobilis. In both cases the nitrogen source is NH3. Both cell compositions are represented by the formula CH1.800.5N0.2. What is the yield of ethanol from glucose by Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast?
#Question id: 14310
#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology
Glucose is converted to ethanol by immobilized yeast cells
entrapped in gel beads. The specific rate of ethanol production is: qP
= 0.2 g ethanol/g-cell-h. The effectiveness factor for an average bead is 0.8.
Each bead contains 50 g/L of cells. The voids volume in the column is 40%.
Assume growth is negligible (all glucose is converted into ethanol). The feed
flow rate is F = 400 l/h and glucose concentration in the feed is S0i
= 150 g glucose/l. The diameter of the column is 1 m and the yield coefficient
is about 0.49 g ethanol/g glucose. The column height is 4 m. What is the
ethanol concentration in the exit stream?