A strain of Escherichia coli has a maximum specific

A chemostat has a liquid volume of 2 litres and is growth rate of 0.8 h-1 on a glucose based medium. If
being fed at a rate of 4 litres per hour. Dilution rate for this organism is being grown in a chemostat with a
this reactor will be dilution rate of 1.2 h-1, then at steady state the
concentration of E. coli in the same medium will
A. 2 litres
A. increase
B. 2 litres per hour
B. be zero
C. 2 h-1
C. change randomly
D. 4 litres per hour
Answer: Option C D. decrease
Answer: Option B

On a glucose medium, the growth of an organism is A fed-batch reactor containing 2 litre of medium and
characterized by the following Monod model and 0.1 g.l-l of biomass is fed with a medium containing 1
stoichiometric parameters μm = 0.3 h-1, Ks =0.05 g.l- g.l-1 of substrate at 1 litre per hour. If after 10 hours,
1 and Y = 0.3 g.g-1 When this organism is grown in a
xs the concentration of biomass in the reactor was 0.2
2 litre continuous on a medium containing 10 g.l-1 of g.l-1, then the biomass produced during the 10 hour
glucose added at 1 l.h-1, the steady state period is
concentration of biomass in the reactor will be
A. 1.5 g
A. 0 g.l-1
B. 2.2 g
B. 0.4 g.l-1
C. 3.0 g
C. 0.5 g.l-1
D. 6.0 g
D. 10 g.l-1
Answer: Option B
Answer: Option A

A fed-batch reactor initially contains 2 litre of medium.

If it was fed at 1 litre per hour, then after 10 hours, the
volume of the reactor will be
A. 1 litre

B. 2 litre

C. 3 litre

D. 13 litre
Answer: Option B

In a glucose-yeast extract medium, Lactococcus lactis

has a maximum specific growth rate (um) of 1.23 h-1.
What would be the specific growth rate of this
organism at steady state in a 4 litre reactor being fed
at 2 litres per hour?
A. 0.5 h-1

B. 1.2 h-1

C. 2.4 h-1

D. 4 h-1
Answer: Option A