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A chemostat is associated with a laboratory device which consists of three interconnected vessel and is used to grow microorganisms in a cultured environment (see Fig. 16.1). In its basic form, the outlet of the first vessel is the inlet for the second vessel and the outlet of the second vessel is the inlet for the third. The first vessel is called a feed bottle, which contains all the nutrients required to grow the microorganisms. All nutrients are assumed to be abundantly supplied except one, which is called a limiting nutrient. The contents of the first vessel are pumped into the second vessel, which is called the culture vessel, at a constant rate.
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Han, X., Kloeden, P.E. (2017). Chemostat. In: Random Ordinary Differential Equations and Their Numerical Solution. Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling, vol 85. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6265-0_16
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