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Effect of viscosity-inducing factors on oxygen transfer in production culture of bacterial cellulose

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Bacterial cellulose (BC) production culture requires high oxygen transfer rate (representatively k L a) at a low shear force. Considering that oxygen exhaustion is observed at the latter half of the exponential growth phase where BC production actually begins, it is highly probable that the drastic reduction of k L a (oxygen volumetric transfer coefficient) is caused by the drastic increase of the soluble and insoluble viscous materials. Therefore, we examined the apparent viscosity-inducing materials generated during BC culture and investigated their effects on k L a. Using the saccharified liquid from food waste as the culture medium, we discussed the relationship between the concentration of the generated solid matters, especially BC and the viscosity, the relationship between the BC concentration and k L a, and the correlation between the viscosity and k L a. The relationship between the solid matter (BC), which is the insoluble viscosity-inducing material, and k L a showed that the BC concentration and k L a were in exponentially reciprocal proportion with the linear regression equation. In case of using agar as the soluble viscosity-inducing material, the correlation between the viscosity and k L a showed that the viscosity depending on the agar concentration was in exponentially reciprocal proportion with k L a in both tap water and the saccharified liquid medium. The results indicated that the effect of the BC concentration on k L a was not great in the saccharified liquid medium. As the agar concentration increased in tap water and the saccharified liquid medium, the viscosity was increased and k L a was decreased gradually, showing a linear relation between the logarithm of the viscosity as agar and k L a. In conclusion, the effect of the soluble viscosity on k L a was greater than that of solid matter (BC). Also, it was suggested that the soluble viscosity-inducing matters like agar were rather more effective than k L a in BC production.

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  1. Department of Environmental Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea

    SeongJun Kim & Hongxian Li

  2. Division of Ocean Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Systems Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea

    IlKwon Oh

  3. School of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwagju, 500-757, Korea

    ChangDoo Kee

  4. Department of Energy and Resources Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwagju, 500-757, Korea

    MyongJun Kim

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Kim, S., Li, H., Oh, I. et al. Effect of viscosity-inducing factors on oxygen transfer in production culture of bacterial cellulose. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 29, 792–797 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-011-0245-8

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