Professor Microbe has submitted a paper for publication in which he studied the growth of a new
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Professor Microbe has submitted a paper for publication in which he studied the growth of a new strain of bug in a mixed flow fermenter (Vm = 46.4) using a pure substrate feed (CA0 = 150, CR0 = Cco = 0). His raw data is as follows
He asserts, without giving details, that this data clearly represents poisonlimiting kinetics with rate constants
The reviewer of the paper, Dr. Ferment, counters that Microbe is quite wrong, that the data in fact represents substrate limiting Monod kinetics
with
But, out of orneriness, he didn't present the details of his calculations either. The editor can't determine who is right (this is not his field), so he sends the paper and the review to duWayne Zuelhsdorff. What is duwayne's answer? Is Microbe, or Ferment, or both, or neither, right?
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