 An experimental and modeling approach for ethanol production by Kluyveromyces marxianus in stirred tank bioreactor using vacuum extraction as a strategy to overcome product inhibitionBruna Tavares, Maria das Graças de Almeida Felipe, Júlio César dos Santos, Félix Monteiro Pereira, Simone Damasceno Gomes and Luciane Sene Renewable Energy, 2019, vol. 131, issue C, 261-267 Abstract: Vacuum ethanol removal effect on the fermentative performance of Kluyveromyces marxianus was assessed. Yeast was cultured in bench bioreactor at initial glucose concentration of 90 g L−1 in two sequential batches of 36 h, with a vacuum ethanol removal step and glucose feed before the second batch. Ethanol concentration after the first batch was 34.13 g L−1 (YP/S 0.38 g g−1; QP 0.94 g L−1.h−1), and 40.90 g L−1 (YP/S 0.18 g g−1; QP 0.43 g L−1.h−1) after the second batch. Ethanol production in a control assay without vacuum extraction only happened in the first batch (36.37 g L−1; YP/S 0.4 g g−1; QP 1.01 g.L−1h−1). The phenomenological modeling showed product inhibition and the importance of product removal to process improvement, although the yeast had needed an adaptation period to recover its fermentative metabolism after the stress caused by vacuum. Keywords: Ethanol; Product inhibition; Product removal; Vacuum; Phenomenological modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:131:y:2019:i:c:p:261-267 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2018.07.030 Access Statistics for this article Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier |
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