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Corynebacterium glutamicum - JUWEL - Forschungszentrum Jülich

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G. Alternative Off-line Optimized<br />

Production Experiments<br />

The experiment in paragraph 5.2.6 on page 116 was designed by optimizing the expected<br />

total volumetric productivity with an extra limitation with respect to the maximal biomass<br />

concentration: the OD600 should stay below 70. Without this extra limitation,<br />

much higher biomass concentration were expected, as shown in paragraph G.1.<br />

Besides the total volumetric productivity, also other criteria could be of interest for<br />

process optimization. For instance a maximal final product concentration or the absence<br />

of problematic by-products are often of interest to facilitate the down-stream processing.<br />

The overall yield of product on substrate can be of interest when substrate costs form<br />

a significant part of the production costs. As another example, this overall yield is also<br />

optimized off-line just like the total volumetric productivity. The suggested experiment<br />

is mentioned in paragraph G.2.<br />

G.1. Total Volumetric Productivity<br />

The optimized process with respect to the total volumetric productivity, without the<br />

extra limitation on the maximal optical density, is shown in figure G.1, together with<br />

the expected results. This experiment could not be performed due to limitations with<br />

respect to the oxygen transfer between the gas phase and the liquid phase in the used<br />

fermentation equipment.<br />

The expected maximal total volumetric productivity was with 14.0 mM.h −1 higher<br />

than the expected value with the extra limitation on the biomass concentration, which<br />

was 10.2 mM.h −1 .<br />

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