Kinetics of the continuous alcoholic fermentation of blackstrap molasses.

The very important problems concerning fermentation kinetics have only recently received some attention (Calam et al., 1951; Gaden, 1955a, b, 1956; Borzani, 1957; Kosin, 1957). In the particular case of continuous alcoholic fermentation, a great number of papers have been published (Alzola, 1940, 1945; Bilford et al., 1942; Owen, 1948; Asai et al., 1952, 1953; Mariller et al., 1952; Borzani, 1953, 1957; Ueda et al., 1954; Ueda, 1955a, b) but only one (Borzani, 1957) gives some attention to the kinetics of the process. In that article (Borzani, 1957) the author postulates an empirical equation relating the fermentation cycle time (T, hr) of a complete continuous fermentation and the concentration of total reducing sugars (C, g per L) of the feeding mash: