Journal
PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 45, Issue 11, Pages 1800-1807Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2010.06.001
Keywords
Biotechnology; Fed-batch culture; Biosurfactant production; Open-loop control; Modeling; Extraction
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
- European Funds for the Regional Development
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This paper formulates a feeding law for a bioprocess dedicated to the production of an antibiotic surfactant using Bacillus subtilis. The specificity of the process relies on the use of the surface active property of the product to extract it by foaming. The control law is designed to maintain a constant specific biomass growth rate while taking into account the particularity of the process. This law can be regarded as a generalization of the conventional exponential feeding strategy and is generic enough to encompass the case of continuous processes with partial recycling. Conventional exponential feeding strategies indeed fail to account for the loss of biomass induced by the foaming. Previous experiments have provided a model of the process and values for its parameters. From this information, a feeding rate law was computed using the feeding strategy proposed in this paper and applied to an experimental culture. This experiment allows discussion of the modeling of the biomass extraction method used in this study. The results on the estimated specific growth rate highlight the complete agreement between the expected and experimental features. Further process optimization studies can now be performed on the basis of the constant specific biomass growth rate. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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