Modeling the effect of bed height and particle size for Vitamin K2 production in a static bed fermenter

Engineering Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mahanama, Raja ^a   Berenjian, Aydin ^a   Dehghani, Fariba ^a   Kavanagh, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Mathematical modeling; Menaquinone 7; Solid state fermentation (SSF); Tray fermenters; Vitamin K2

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BED HEIGHT; FULL FACTORIAL; INCUBATION TIME; MENAQUINONE 7; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; POLYNOMIAL MODELS; SCALE-UP; SOLID-STATE FERMENTATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MODELING; VITAMIN K; YIELD REDUCTION;

FERMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUBSTRATES;

FERMENTERS;

EID: 84857770950     PISSN: 1816093X     EISSN: 18160948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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