Microlitre/millilitre shaken bioreactors in fermentative and biotransformation processes - A review

Biocatalysis and Biotransformation

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 237-252

  Fernandes, P ^a,b   Cabral, J M S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Mass transfer correlations; Monitoring and control; Predictive models; Small scale bioreactors

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; FERMENTATION; FORECASTING; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; ERLENMEYER TYPE FLASKS; MICROTITER PLATES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SMALL-SCALE BIOREACTORS; TEST TUBES;

BIOREACTORS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COST CONTROL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FERMENTATION OPTIMIZATION; MICROTITER PLATE ASSAY; PREDICTION; PROCESS DESIGN; REACTOR MONITORING; REVIEW; SCALE UP; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33747343757     PISSN: 10242422     EISSN: 10292446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10242420600667684     Document Type: Review

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