TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 19487


What is the yield coefficient if the initial substrate concentration is 20 g/l and biomass is 0.2 g/l. The substrate is then consumed and produces 6.0 g/l of biomass?

#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering
  1. 0.09 g biomass / g substrate
  2. 0.19 g biomass / g substrate
  3. 0.20 g biomass / g substrate
  4. 0.29 g biomass / g substrate
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TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 14169

#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 mass of water evaporated


TLS Online TPP Program

#Question id: 14170

#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

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


TLS Online TPP Program

#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


TLS Online TPP Program

#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?

TLS Online TPP Program

#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?

TLS Online TPP Program

#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)?