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Operating Conditions for High Production Rates of Ethanol in a Continuous Two‐Stage Fermenter with Cell Recycle
Author(s) -
Nishiwaki Akio,
Dunn Irving J.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450830513
Subject(s) - industrial fermentation , saturation (graph theory) , chemistry , substrate (aquarium) , fermentation , biology , mathematics , biochemistry , combinatorics , ecology
A continuous two‐stage fermenter with cell recycle at each stage is studied numerically for efficient production of ethanol. In this system, both filtrate and bleed from the first stage are provided to the second fermenter. Using a product‐inhibition kinetic model with different saturation constants, operating conditions giving the maximum ethanol productivity attainable at high substrate conversions are examined. For high substrate conversions close to complete consumption, the ethanol productivities predicted for this system are found to be higher than those for a single‐stage system and a previous two‐stage configuration at the same bleed ratios.