Enthalpy and Gibbs energy dissipation

An empirical relation was proposed in reference [5] to relate the specific Gibbs energy dissipation to the number of atom of carbon of the energy source 

The advantage of this relation is to require only black-box information and it gives a good prediction. However, some cases are badly represented, for example it is predicted that -277 kJ C-mol is dissipated during aerobic growth on acetate, whereas the experimental value is about 3 times higher (-732 kJ C-mol ), 

It can be seen in Table 22 that a decrease in entropy is observed when the number of moles Art/rtx decreases (e.g., for M. thermoautotrophicum, for S. cer-evisiae grown on ethanol) and conversely, entropy increases when the number of molecules increases (for S. cerevisiae grown anaerobically, for aceto-methanogens, for sulfate reducing bacteria). 

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Table 22 Enthalpy and Gibbs energy dissipation per C-mole biomass during growth. A / x indicates the change in mole number of the growth reaction per C-mole biomass [24],...

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