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Bacterial population dynamics in batch and continuous‐flow microbial reactors
Author(s) -
Nishimura Y.,
Bailey J. E.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690270112
Subject(s) - isothermal process , biological system , volumetric flow rate , population , growth rate , continuous flow , flow (mathematics) , division (mathematics) , bacterial growth , dynamics (music) , mechanics , process engineering , bacteria , mathematics , thermodynamics , biology , engineering , physics , demography , geometry , arithmetic , genetics , sociology , acoustics
Abstract Calculations of the distribution of states in cell populations grown in well‐mixed, isothermal batch and continuous flow reactors are presented. By restricting the analysis to a class of bacteria for which cell division control may be modeled using overlapping timers, analytical results are obtained for many cell population characteristics in terms of the growth rate history. This required growth rate trajectory is evaluated using a separate overall reactor model. The simulation results conform qualitatively to available experimental data and suggest new experiments for further testing of the single‐cell model.