GATE BT · 2024 · BT
Question 55: Bioreactor engineering
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Question 55
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Aspergillus niger is grown in a 10,000 L stirred batch bioreactor under aerated conditions to produce citric acid. At steady state oxygen transfer conditions, the specific oxygen uptake rate of the organism and the volumetric mass transfer coefficient are
and 60 min
, respectively.If the oxygen solubility is
kg m
under the operating conditions, based only on oxygen dynamics, the maximum possible cell concentration is ______ kg m
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GATE BT 2024 · Paper 1
Biotechnology · Original paper archive
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- Biotechnology
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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