The principal objective of this study was to evaluate the kinetics of dihydroxyacetone production by Gluconobacter frateurii CGMCC 5397 under different oxygen volumetric mass transfer coefficient (kLa) conditions in submerged bioreactors using biodiesel-derived crude glycerol as the carbon source. kLa is a key fermentation parameter for the production of dihydroxyacetone. Cultivations were cond...

Yeast cells were cultivated at different growth rates in a chemostat by alterations in the flow of the limiting nutrient glucose and in batch cultures where variations in growth rate were achieved by alterations in the composition of nutrients. It was observed that the stage in the cycle at which S-phase was completed varied with growth rate. The faster the growth rate, the earlier the stage in...

Survival under nutrient limitation is an essential feature of microbial cells, and it is defined by the chronological lifespan. We summarize recent findings, illustrating how crucial the choice of the experimental setup is for the interpretation of data in this field. Especially the impact of oxygen supply differs depending on the culture type, highlighting the differences of alternatives like ...

Available research on the relationship between organizational culture (OC) and knowledge management success (KMS) has never demonstrated two points which are really critical issues in China, one is the specialized effect of process-orientation dimension of OC on KMS, and the other is the mediating role of knowledge sharing between OC and KMS. By adopting methods of logical reasoning and literat...

The doubly-fed generators (DFIG) have clear superiority for the applications of large capacity and limited-range speed control case due to the partially rated inverter, lower cost and high reliability. These characteristics enable the doubly-fed wound rotor induction machine to have vast applications in wind-driven generation.In this paper Combined Vector and direct power control (CVDPC) strate...

The production of lipids by oleaginous yeast and fungi becomes more important because these lipids can be used for biodiesel production. To understand the process of lipid production better, we developed a model for growth, lipid production and lipid turnover in submerged batch fermentation. This model describes three subsequent phases: exponential growth when both a C-source and an N-source ar...

Hybridization array technology is increasingly being used for the analysis of gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It is a powerful technique in which the relative abundance of all the mRNA molecules transcribed under a particular condition may be simultaneously measured. However, most studies performed using this technique are carried out in batch culture where the growth rat...

Dynamic changes of physiological bioprocess parameters, e.g. a change in the specific growth rate μ, are frequently observed during industrial manufacturing as well as bioprocess development. A quantitative description of these variations is of great interest, since it can bring elucidation to the physiological state of the culture. The goal of this contribution was to show limitations and issu...

The present study deals with the batch and fed-batch mass production of Steinernema carpocapsae. S. carpocapsae is an entomoparasitic nematode that is used as a biological control agent of soil-borne crop insect pests. The ability and efficiency of fed-batch culture process was successful through the utilization of the nematode’s bacterial symbiont Xenorhabdus nematophila. Results from the fed-...

The Distributed Batch Controller (DBC) supports scientiic batch data processing. The DBC distributes batch jobs to one or more pools of workstations and monitors and controls their execution. The pools themselves may be geographically distributed, and need not be dedicated to processing batch jobs. We describe the use of the DBC in a large scientiic data processing application, namely the gener...