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The yield of secondary metabolites in a large-scale fermenter typically ranges from 0.1 to lOg/L of broth. Such poor yield leads to cumbersome and expensive processes for both product separation and broth disposal. Within the last decade, several novel bioreactors have been developed for the intensification of fermentation processes. Examples include a centrifugal bioreactor, a rotating packed bed fermenter, and a sonobioreactor. Most of these, however, are yet to be implemented on a production scale because they generally lack practicality and well-defined scale-up criteria. 

A report from Sweden (Rasic and Kurmann, 1978) indicated that nine out of 11 lactose-intolerant individuals tolerated yogurt. Nichols (1978) administered acidophilus milk (5 ml/kg/d) to six lactase-deficient subjects. On the basis of hydrogen breath test results, it was concluded that Lactobacillus acidophilus did not promote additional lactose hydrolysis. However, the dose of microorganisms (2-4 x 10 /ml) used in this study is much lower than typical counts in fermented milk products. From the same laboratory (Gilliland and Kim, 1981), it was later reported that administration of acidophilus milk containing more natural numbers resulted in decreased breath hydrogen production by lactose-intolerant individuals. 

Figure 16.7 Typical products from fermentation broths.

A typical penicillin broth contains 20-35 mg/1 of antibiotic. Filtration is used to remove mycelial biomass from fermentation broth. The filtration may be subjected to filter aided polymers. Neutralisation of penicillin at pH 2-3 is required. Amyl acetate or butyl acetate is used as an organic solvent to remove most of the product from the fermentation broth. Finally, penicillin is removed as sodium penicillin and precipitated by a butanol-water mixture. 

The product is extracted from the culture fluid by adsorption onto caibon or resins rather than by solvent. This illustrates an important general point that antibiotic manufacturing processes differ from one another much more in their product recovery stages than in their fermentation stages. Figure 7.4 illustrates a typical production ronte from inoculum to bulk antibiotic. 

Recognizing the need for a more economically and environmentally friendly citric acid recovery process, an adsorptive separation process to recover citric acid from fermentation broth was developed by UOP [9-14] using resin adsorbents. No waste gypsum is generated with the adsorption technique. The citric acid product recovered from the Sorbex pilot plant either met or exceeded all specifications, including that for readily carbonizable substances. An analysis of the citric acid product generated from a commercially prepared fermentation broth is shown in Table 6.2, along with typical production specifications. The example sited here is not related to zeolite separation. It is intent to demonstrate the impact of adsorption to other separation processes. 

Many applications exist for nltra.filtTa.tion in the biotechnology industry. A typical application is the concentration and removal of products from fermentation operations used in enzyme production, cell harvesting, or virus production. Most of the systems are small the volume processed is often only 100 to 1000 gal/day, but the value of products is often very high. Batch systems are commonly used. 

The complexity of biological processes generally requires many stages to produce a final, purified product from a particular composition of raw materials. Although a typical bioprocess consists of two main parts, upstream fermentation and downstream product recovery, it is not unusual to have between 10 and 20 steps in the overall process. This reflects the complex nature of a typical fermentation broth, which will consist of an aqueous mixture of cells, intracellular or extracellular products, unreacted substrates, and by-products of the fermentation process. From this mixture, the desired... 

The soil is maintained and improved with organic compost and fertilisers which can be made from a range of materials including animal manures and waste products from the fermentation, which are usually composted and spread on the ground under the vines. Typical composting material includes yeast deposits, sediment, marc, vine leaves, prunings and straw. 

Submerged fermentations are mostly operated in batch processes but can also be run continuously in certain cases (continuous fermentation). Batch fermentations may last up to 10 days. Following the fermentation the flavour raw material is extracted from the fermentation broth. In industrial fermentations typically cell counts of 10-30 g/1 are obtained. For a profitable cost/efficiency relation a product yield of 20-30 g/1 has to be achieved. Aerobe fermentations require oxygen transfer rates to the fermentation broth of about 100 mmol/1 per hour. Depending on the viscosity of the media 0.75-2.5 KW stirring power has to be applied for each m of fermentation broth. 

These applications are based on water dissociation at the interface of a bipolar membrane and are coupled with the action of the monopolar membrane action. Deacidification and acid production, however, entail conventional ED. In the recovery of organic acids from fermentation broths the elimination of cations has often been a major problem, as fermentation typically performs better in pHs significantly above the pfC, of the acid produced. Bipolar membranes offer a solution to the elimination... 

The product from a desired fermentation is either secreted from the cells into the fermentation broth or is entrapped within the cells themselves. In either case, the first step in downstream processing is to separate the cells from the fermentation broth. This step is typically accomplished by filtration or centrifugation and is known as solid-liquid separation. 

Tubular fluidized and fixed bed fermenters are deviations from the simple bubble column fermenter. Often utilized in producing beer and ciders, these fermenters contain immobilized microorganisms or microbial films on support surfaces. Microbes lost with the product are continuously replenished by adding fresh microorganisms into the packed bed fermenters. In the fixed bed case, slow downward flow of the medium significantly reduces the shear removal (mobilization) of the microbes from the support materials and increases the residence time in the packed column. This is a typical characteristic of the trickle bed fermenter for continuous operation. Readers are referred to the packed bed reactor entry in this volume for a more... 

Typically, the SSF process is carried out in a CSTR reactor in batch mode. Under these reaction conditions, the fermentation product, ethanol, exerts its effect not only on microbes but also on saccharification. To overcome this problem, and to improve the efficiency of ethanol production from cellulose, the continuous removal of end-product during ethanol production would have advantages. With this type of process application, the SSF process can be operated in a fed-batch mode. Fed-batch operation is similar to continuous operation except the fermentation broth is retained in the fermentor at all times whereas the solid substrate is continuously fed into the fermentor [73]. Another method is to continuously remove ethanol during the SSF process (see Sect. 2.1.3). 

Synthetic polymers applied in everyday life rarely possess well-defined stereochemistries of their backbones. This sharply contrasts with the polymers made by Nature where perfect control is the norm. An exception is poly-L-lactide this polyester is frequently used in a variety of biomedical applications. By simply playing with the stereochemistry of the backbone, properties ranging from a semi-ciystalline, high melting polymer (poly-L-lactide) to an amorphous high Tg polymer (poly-mes o-lactide) can be achieved. The synthetic synthesis of such chiral polymers typically starts from optically pure monomers obtained form the chiral pool. The fermentation product L-lactic acid, for example, is the starting material for the synthesis of poly(L-lactide). 

Glycolic acid can be produced via fermentation process [6] from glycolo-nitrile hydrolysis by mineral acid, such as sulfuric acid [7,8]. Both processes produce a multi-component solution with the acid concentration typically less than 10 wt% for fermentation technology, and less than 40 wt% for glycolo-nitrile hydrolysate. The acid can be produced by the enzymatic conversion (typically the enzyme catalyst used is nitrilase or a combination of a nitrile hydratase and an amidase) of glycolonitrile which results in the production of an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate [9]. 

Protein Purity. During the production of recombinant proteins, process monitoring is required to assure purity levels required in every step. The recovery and purification of product from fermentation broth typically involve various procedures, such as filtration, centrifugation, and chromatography. After each purification and final step, constituent levels must be determined to ensure that the desired levels of purity have been achieved. In addition to its control function, this purity information is also frequently used to further optimize purification processes. CZE and SDS-CGE can be mostly used for the purity checks of protein products. 

In addition to MRM, the other scan modes available on a QqQ have occasionally been used for residue analysis as well. A precursor ion scan can be used to identify precursor ions from a product ion, and therefore to identify analytes and metabolites or impurities, which generate the same product ion, in complex matrices. For example, erythromycin B was identified in yogurt using this function. In this application, Q3 was held constant to measure a fragment ion at m/z 158, which is a typical product ion of compounds or impurities related to erythromycin A with a desosamine residue. Q1 was then scanned over an appropriate range, from which a precursor ion at m/z 718 was detected. The latter was identified as erythromycin B, which was an impurity in the erythromycin fermentation product. Constant neutral loss scan, which has rare applications for antibiotic analysis, records spectra that show all the precursor ions that have fragmented by the loss of a specific neutral mass. In this instance, both Q1 and Q3 scan together with a constant mass offset between the two quadrupoles. Both precursor ion and constant neutral loss scans can be performed only with ion beam tandem in-space mass spectrometers. 

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