Can microbial growth yield be estimated using simple thermodynamic analogies to technical processes?

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 980-990

  von Stockar, Urs ^a   Vojinović, Vojislav ^a   Maskow, Thomas ^b   Liu, Jingsong ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c Product Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass yield; Cogwheel train; Gibbs energy

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; GROWTH KINETICS; METABOLISM;

BIOMASS YIELD; COGWHEEL TRAIN; ENERGY TRANSDUCER MODEL;

MICROORGANISMS;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; GROWTH KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROORGANISMS;

EID: 41449085195     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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