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  • Question
  • How is air supply to the fermentor sterilized?


  • Options
  • A. By heat filtration
  • B. Filtration through fibrous material
  • C. Filtration through granular material
  • D. All of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • All of the above 


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    • 1. The fermentor can be sterilized by

    • Options
    • A. keeping it in the oven
    • B. steam under pressure
    • C. boiling
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. Yeast is used in the production of

    • Options
    • A. ethyl alcohol
    • B. acetic acid
    • C. cheese
    • D. curd
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which of the following is used for agitation in a fermentor?

    • Options
    • A. Impeller
    • B. Baffles
    • C. Sparger
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 4. After the fermentation is over, ethanol is recovered by

    • Options
    • A. centrifugation
    • B. distillation
    • C. filtration
    • D. cell disintegration
    • Discuss
    • 5. What are different substrates used for ethanol production?

    • Options
    • A. Starch containing substrate
    • B. Juices from sugarcane or molasses or sugar beet
    • C. Waste product from wood or processed wood
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 6. Which of the following organism is not used in any of the traditional industrial fermentation?

    • Options
    • A. E. coli
    • B. Yeast
    • C. Bacillus
    • D. Pseudomonas
    • Discuss
    • 7. Ethanol is produced by

    • Options
    • A. continuous fermentation
    • B. batch fermentation
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. Candida utilis is used for the fermentation of waste sulphate liquor since it ferments

    • Options
    • A. hexoses only
    • B. pentoses only
    • C. both hexoses and pentoses
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. Spirit vinegar is produced from

    • Options
    • A. fruit juices
    • B. malted grain
    • C. ethanol
    • D. ale
    • Discuss
    • 10. For the recovery of citric acid after fermentation, Ca(OH)2 is added to the slurry to

    • Options
    • A. precipitate calcium carbonate
    • B. precipitate calcium citrate
    • C. precipitate calcium phosphate
    • D. precipitate calcium sulphate
    • Discuss


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