Development of re-usable yeast-gellan gum micro-bioreactors for potential application in continuous fermentation to produce bio-ethanol

Pharmaceutics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 731-744

  Tan, Sook Mun ^a   Heng, Paul Wan Sia ^a   Chan, Lai Wah ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Gellan gum; Micro bioreactors; Microencapsulation; Water in oil emulsion

Indexed keywords

GELLAN;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOREACTOR; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMULSION; ENCAPSULATION; MICROBIOREACTOR; NONHUMAN; SURFACE PROPERTY; YEAST CELL;

EID: 84255204803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics3040731     Document Type: Article

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