The first-order reaction A → B, has k = 5.67 s^–1. If [A]₀ = 0.500 M, how long will it take [A] = 0.124 M?

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#Question id: 20008

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

In a glucose-yeast extract medium, Lactococcus lactis has a maximum specific growth rate (um) of 1.23 h^-1. What would be the specific growth rate of this organism at steady state in a 4 litre reactor being fed at 2 litres per hour?

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#Question id: 20009

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

In a plug flow reactor, the highest concentration of substrates is exposed to the cells that

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#Question id: 20010

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

In an activated sludge process, the biomass is recycled to

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#Question id: 20011

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

A strain of Escherichia coli has a maximum specific growth rate of 0.8 h^-1 on a glucose based medium. If this organism is being grown in a chemostat with a dilution rate of 1.2 h^-1, then at steady state the concentration of E. coli in the same medium will

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#Question id: 20012

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

A fed-batch reactor containing 2 litre of medium and 0.1 g.l^-l of biomass is fed with a medium containing 1 g.l^-1 of substrate at 1 litre per hour. If after 10 hours, the concentration of biomass in the reactor was 0.2 g.l^-1, then the biomass produced during the 10 hour period is

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#Question id: 20013

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

In fed batch bioreactor modelling, the rate of change in the bioreactor volume is assumed to be equal to