| Abstract: | The given paper represents formulae for calculation of oxygen consumption and of carbon dioxide formation in a microbial culture obtained from corrected measuring data of gas balance measurements. Basic relations between these measuring data the respiration quotient RQ were derived. The influence of measuring error to the accuracy of determination of oxygen consumption and of carbon dioxide formation at the analysis of gas concentrations and of air flow is discussed. It is shown that the determination of carbon dioxide formation rate is possible in many cultivation regimes with better accuracy than the determination of oxygen uptake rate. |
