Agglomeration, quenching and the glucose sink

Hayes (1998) proposed that the disposal of glucose by the twin processes of diffusion and fermentation can be viewed as a glucose sink and that whilst the sink is operating there is little glucose available on 

Moebus and Teuber (1985) suggested that solid glucose bridges, broken or intact, are themselves fermentable given sufficient available moisture and sufficient time. 

At the start-up of aerobic fermentation, ethanol vapour and carbon dioxide production begins almost immediately glucose is applied to the bed (Rottenbacher et al., 1987), climbing to peak volumetric levels in the off-gas wifhin abouf 15 minutes of applying the feed solufion. The levels fhen decline slighfly and stabilise at about 30 minutes run 

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