Thermokinetic coupling

Specific Rates and Thermokinetic Coupling with Radiation Field Formulation 76... 

Perspectives on Formulation of Thermokinetic Coupling for Eukaryotic Microalgae Acknowledgments References... 

Thus, the construction of predictive models of photobioreactors requires careful formulation of radiative transfer within the reaction volume, in order to obtain the radiation field (cf step 1 in the earlier procedure). Such analysis is developed this chapter, starting in Section 2 with determination of the light scattering and absorption properties of photosynthetic-microorganism suspensions. Next, these properties are used in Section 3 for analysis of radiative transfer and in Section 4 for rigorous solution of the radiative transfer equation by the Monte Carlo method. Finally, the thermokinetic coupling between radiative transfer and photosynthesis is addressed in Section 5. It should be noted that Sections 2 and 4 mainly summarize works that have been already published elsewhere, whereas Sections 3 and 5 include extensive original work and results. 

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Stoichiometric, Thermokinetic, and Energetic Coupling with a Radiation Field Calculation of the Main Averaged Rates and Efficiency for the Photobioreactor 75... 

In Fig. 24, the irradiance field obtained with the two-flux approximation for fi —> 00 is compared with the Monte Carlo reference solution in the case of collimated solar-light incidence. The two-flux approximation wiU be used in Section 5.6 to analyze the coupling between radiative transfer and photosynthesis thermokinetics in photobioreactors with simple geometric structure. 

STOICHIOMETRIC, THERMOKINETIC, AND ENERGETIC COUPLING WITH A RADIATION FIELD CALCULATION OF THE MAIN AVERAGED RATES AND EFFICIENCY FOR THE PHOTOBIOREACTOR... 

This result is highly important because it means that (i) if we can develop a theory to determine the value of the P/2e ratio for any situation regarding the radiation field in the photobioreactor, we will then be able to obtain as a predictive mean both the composition of the produced biomass (in terms of the molar fraction of each intracellular-macromolecule class and in terms of the global C-molar formula) and the value of the mean quantum yield (p involved in the thermokinetic law of coupling, (ii) AH the dark reactions of the anabolism in the cells operate under the physical constraint of radiant... 

Walz, D., Caplan, S.R. (1988) Energy coupling and thermokinetic balancing in enzyme kinetics. Microscopic reversibility and detailed balance revisited. Cell Biophys, 12, 13-28. 

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Just like the elaboration of chemical reaction kinetics by conventional modes, a thermokinetic analysis is not as a rule brought to a conclusion by the performance of only certain measurements. Thermokinetic analysis requires intensive interpretation effort, directly coupled with experimentation. A complex mechanism cannot be broken down by an inflexible a priori plan for experiments or an a priori concept for elucidation, but only by the use of knowledge, empathy, feeling for detection, and, last but not least, intuition (see Sect. 4.3). 

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