REACTION MECHANISMS, PATHWAYS, BIOREACTIONS, AND BIOREACTORS

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Overview. Two of the main threads that tie this chapter together are the pseudo-steady-state-hypothesis (PSSH) and the concept of active intermediates. Active intermediates are highly reactive species that disappear almost as fast as they are formed. As a result, one can use the PSSH that says the net rate of formation of active intermediate is zero. We shall use the PSSH to develop rate laws for chemical reactions that do not follow elementary rate laws and for biological reactions. [Pg.341]

Reactions that do not follow elementary rate laws usually involve a number of reactions. To develop rate laws for non-elementary reactions we [Pg.341]

Next we apply the PSSH to biological reactions, with a focus on enzymatic reactions. Here we study [Pg.341]

In the last section, the concepts of enzymatic reactions are extended to microorganisms and biomass synthesis. Here micro-organism growth kinetics are used in modeling both batch reactors and CSTRs (chemostats). [Pg.341]

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