Situation Analysis: Design and Operation of Fermentors for Heterogeneous Continuous Bioreactors

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Situation Analysis: Design and Operation of

Fermentors for Heterogeneous Continuous Bioreactors

 

 

Microbial metabolic fermentation operations

often are performed with the consumers-favored Homogeneous Batch

Bioreactors. By this mode of operation, the microbes that are fed into

the bioreactors together with the substrates are generally not

recovered at the end of the reaction. Preferably, therefore, the

microbes are immobilized then used in the bioreactors so as to be

recovered at the end of the reaction-time. The immobilization of the

microbes is often carried out in a vessel that is called Fermentor. The

design of a Fermentor for the purposes of supporting continuous

biotechnology process is both straight forward and tasking. The design

of Fermentors is straight because the functionality of the vessel is

often very well-defined. However, the design is just as tasking because

the vessel is expected to effect a precise re-initialization of the

microbes in the immobilized state.

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