Recent questions tagged bioprocess

If the doubling time of a bacterial population is $3$ hours, then its average specific growth rate during this period is $\_\_\_\_\_$ $\mathrm{h}^{-1}$.(Round off to two ...

A fed batch process is running at quasi-steady state with respect to substrate and biomass concentration. At $2 \mathrm{~h}$, the culture volume is $500 \mathrm{~L}$ with...

The following reaction represents biomass synthesis from hexadecane$\mathrm{C}_{16} \mathrm{H}_{34}+12.5 \mathrm{O}_2+2.13 \mathrm{NH}_3 \rightarrow 10.6 \mathrm{CH}_{1.6...

Which one of the following represents non-growth associated product formation kinetics in a bioprocess system? $X$ and $P$ denote viable cell and product concentrations, ...

It is desired to scale-up a fermentation from $1L$ to $1000L$ vessel by maintaining a constant power-to-volume ratio. The small fermenter is operated at an agitator speed...

Fed batch cultivation is suitable for which of the following?Processes with substrate inhibitionProcesses with product inhibitionHigh cell density cultivationP and Q only...

At the end of a batch culture, glucose solution is added at a flow rate of $200 \: ml/h$. If the culture volume after $2$ h of glucose addition is $1000$ ml, the initial ...