Question: Example: Glucose - to - ethanol fermentation is to be carried out in a batch reactor using an organism such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Derive required

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Glucose-to-ethanol fermentation is to be carried out in a batch reactor using an organism such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Derive required equations to plot the concentrations of cells, substrate, and product and growth rates as functions of time. The initial cell concentration is 1.0gdm3 and the substrate (glucose) concentration is 250gdm3.
Cp**,=93gdm3,Ycs,=0.08gg
n,=0.52,Yps,=0.45gg(est.)
max,=0.33h-1,Ypc,=5.6gg(est.)
Ks,=1.7gdm3,kd,=0.01h-1
m,=0.03(g substrate)?(gcells*h)
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 Example: Glucose-to-ethanol fermentation is to be carried out in a batch

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