ISSN:
1750-3841
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
: The modeling of microbial growth behavior is of great relevance to the control of many industrial processes. In this work, a deterministic model to predict the growth curve of microorganisms, from inoculation to death, is presented. To validate the model a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain has been used to conduct wine fermentation tests at 25 °C and at 2 different values of initial nitrogen concentration. Cell, nitrogen, ethanol and sugar concentration were monitored over a period of about 1200 h. The proposed model was simultaneously fitted with success to the 4 sets of available data. Moreover, due to the mechanistic structure of the proposed approach, it was possible to quantitatively describe the evolution of R1(t), R2(t), dE(t)/dt, dN(t)/dt, and dS(t)/dt during wine fermentation.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2003.tb07022.x
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