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  • Commonly employed water insoluble supports for the covalent attachment of enzyme include


  • Options
  • A. acrylamide based polymers
  • B. polypeptides
  • C. dextran
  • D. all of these

  • Correct Answer
  • all of these 


  • Immobilized Enzyme problems


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    • 1. The immobilization technique involving physical method is

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    • A. covalent bond formation dependent
    • B. non-covalent bond formation dependent
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. ionic bond formation dependent
    • Discuss
    • 2. Which of the following is not the correct answer?

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    • A. Immobilized enzyme may show selectively altered chemical properties
    • B. Immobilized enzyme may show selectively altered physical properties
    • C. Immobilized enzyme may simulate the realistic natural environment where the enzyme come from the cell
    • D. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 3. If Damkohler number, NDa >>1, the reaction rate is much greater than the mass transfer rate and the overall reaction is controlled by the rate of mass transfer. In this case, the enzyme reaction can be described as (where Csb and Cs are the substrate concentration in bulk of solution and at the immobilized enzyme surface respectively. ks mass transfer coefficient, and a is the surface area of an immobilized enzyme particles)

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    • A. rp = ksa(Csb-Cs)
    • B. rp = ksaCsb
    • C. rp = ksaCs
    • D. rp = ksa(Csb+Cs)
    • Discuss
    • 4. Damkohler number(NDa) is

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    • A. the ratio of the maximum reaction rate to the maximum mass transfer rate
    • B. the ratio of the minimum reaction rate to the maximum mass transfer rate
    • C. the ratio of the maximum reaction rate to the minimum mass transfer rate
    • D. the ratio of the minimum reaction rate to the minimum mass transfer rate
    • Discuss
    • 5. Which of the following is not a physical method of immobilization?

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    • A. Adsorption
    • B. Entrapment
    • C. Micro encapsulation
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. For a steady state condition, the change of substrate concentration (dCs/dt) is

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    • A. zero
    • B. 1
    • C. >1
    • D. <1
    • Discuss
    • 7. To measure the extent to which the reaction rate is lowered because of resistance to mass transfer, the effectiveness factor of an immobilized enzyme, ? can be defined as

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    • A. reaction rate/rate if not slowed by diffusion
    • B. rate if not slowed by diffusion/ reaction rate
    • C. actual reaction rate/ rate if not slowed by diffusion
    • D. rate if not slowed by diffusion/ actual reaction rate
    • Discuss
    • 8. A fed-batch reactor containing 1 g.l-1 of substrate in 2 litre of medium. It is fed with 1 g.l-l of substrate at the rate of 1 litre per hour. After 10 hours, the concentration of substrate in the reactor was 0.5 g.l-1 . The mass of substrate that was used by the culture in the reactor was

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    • A. 2g
    • B. 6g
    • C. 8g
    • D. 12g
    • Discuss
    • 9. A continuous reactor at steady state contains 0.04 g.l-1 of biomass and 0.02 g.l-1 of phenol. The feed contained 0.1 g.l-1 of phenol. The biomass yield would be

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    • A. 0.4 g.g-1
    • B. 0.5 g.g-1
    • C. 1.0 g.g-1
    • D. 5.0 g.g-1
    • Discuss
    • 10. In a continuous reactor, the medium contains 40 g.l-1 of maltose and the medium flow rate is 10 litres per hour and the effluent contains 20 g.l-l of lactate. What is the productivity of lactate production from this reactor?

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    • A. 50 g maltose.l-1
    • B. 50 g lactate.l-1
    • C. 200 g maltose.l-1
    • D. 200 g lactate.l-1
    • Discuss


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