Question: As a process engineer you have been asked to design the agitation system for a culture of Aspergillus niger within a stirred tank bioreactor. It

As a process engineer you have been asked to design the agitation system for a culture of Aspergillus niger within a stirred tank bioreactor. It has been observed that in filamentous fungal cultures the rheological parameters of the medium, such as the consistency index (K) and the flow behavior index (n), are usually dependent on the biomass concentration according to one of the following expressions: K=aXb
n=dXe
K=K0ecx1-K0Kf(1-ecx)
n=nf+1-nf1+dxe where a, c and d are empirical parameters, K0 and Kf are the initial and final values of the consistency index and nf is the final value of flow behavior.
Considering that the density of the medium is 1000 kg/m3, at a cell density of 20 g/L and the information in tables 1 and 2, answer the following: The tables are the following:

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