Fermentation Kinetics Questions

• The increased air flow rate in bubble column fermenter can cause excessive foaming and high retention of air bubbles in the column which
• The maximum specific growth rate of an organism depends on
• A higher Ks value of Monod's equation means
• The high oxygen transfer efficiencies of airlift bioreactors is due to
• Stationary phase is described as
• Which of the following is correct for the prediction of time requirement in a batch fermenter?
• Heat transfer rates (per unit volume) will be lowest in
• The number of baffles in a standard stirred tank bioreactor is
• Bacterial growth curve is obtained by plotting
• The contents in jet loop reactor are mixed through
• Why a T-flask used in small-scale cell culture is incubated in a horizontal position?
• Wash out in steady state fermentation occurs when
• Which of the following is not correct for the Monod model and the Michaelis Menten Model?
• In the accelerated phase, cell starts to
• An open system in which the growth rate is maintained by adding a nutrient (present in limiting quantities) at the same rate as that medium containing micro-organisms is removed is called
• The height to diameter ratio (H/D) for the column fermenters is
• In the stationary phase
• Biomass concentrations during fermentation is
• The dilution rate, D is defined as(where F = volumetric flow rate, VR = total volume of culture in the reactor and μ specific growth rate)
• Which of the following is an example of a mathematical model?