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Kinetics of ethanol production by yeast in continuous culture

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The rate of fermentation of glucose by Saccharomyces uvarum in steadystate continuous culture in excess of substrates showed non-competitive inhibition kinetics with respect to ethanol. A model is presented which predicts that growth stops at a finite ethanol concentration, which was calculated to be 95 gl-1 for the system used here. The observed maximum ethanol concentration in a single stage continuous culture was 92 gl-1.

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    R. C. Righelato, D. Rose & A. W. Westwood

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Righelato, R.C., Rose, D. & Westwood, A.W. Kinetics of ethanol production by yeast in continuous culture. Biotechnol Lett 3, 3–8 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00127252

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