Two continuous bioreactors containing the same organisms, fed with the same feed at the same dilution rate were compared. Reactor 1 started with an initial concentration of glucose of 10 g.l^-1, while reactor 2 contained 0.1 g.l^-1 of glucose at the start of the process then at steady state

Yeast is typically produced in fed batch reactors because

Which of the following organisms will continue their metabolism at high substrate concentrations?

A fed-batch reactor containing 2 litre of medium and 0.1 g.l^-l of biomass is fed with a medium containing 1 g.l^-1 of substrate at 1 litre per hour. If after 10 hours, the concentration of biomass in the reactor was 0.2 g.l^-1, then the biomass produced during the 10 hour period is

A strain of Escherichia coli has a maximum specific growth rate of 0.8 h^-1 on a glucose based medium. If this organism is being grown in a chemostat with a dilution rate of 1.2 h^-1, then at steady state the concentration of E. coli in the same medium will