Abstract
The goal of this work is to optimize production of bio-ethanol by fermentation through regulating yeast growth energy (YGE), and provide the mechanism of ethanol production from food-waste leachate (FWL) using yeast (S. cerevisiae) as inoculums to be predictable and controllable. The wide range of reduced sugar concentration (RSC) which is commonly administered from low (35 g per liter) to very high (100 g per liter) is responsible for costs increasing besides risks of FWL contamination and death of yeast cells. A mathematical model is presented to describe yeast growth energy (YGE) due to RSC doses along with predicting the amounts of ethanol yield by each dose to identify the optimum one. Simulations of the presented model showed that YGE, energy intake (EI), and their produced ethanol energy (PEE) are always balanced during fermentation process according to the law of conservation of energy. For a better fermentation rate in a continuous process and a large-scale production; YGE should be less than half of EI and more than its quarter (i.e. \( \frac{ 1}{ 4}{\text{EI}} \le {\text{YGE}} \le \frac{1}{2}{\text{EI}} \)) which keeps the residual energy less than YGE to avoid risks of osmotic stresses or aging of cells allowing the survival of all yeast cells as long as possible to maximize ethanol production and decrease productivity costs.
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Abbreviations
- EI:
-
Energy intake
- RE:
-
Residual energy
- CE:
-
Consumed energy
- PPE:
-
Produced ethanol energy
- tD :
-
Doubling time
- CGE:
-
Cell growth energy
- YGE:
-
Yeast growth energy
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Moawad, E.Y. Optimizing bioethanol production by regulating yeast growth energy. Syst Synth Biol 6, 61–68 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11693-012-9099-6
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