Effects of unsteady state conditions on the biooxidation of methyl ethyl and methyl isobutyl ketone in continuous flow liquid phase cultures |
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Authors: | D P Geoghegan G Hamer M A Deshusses |
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Institution: | Chemical Engineering Department, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, IE College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA, US
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Abstract: | The effects of changing operating conditions on the biooxidation of methyl ethyl and/or methyl isobutyl ketone in continuous flow enrichment culture are examined. Particular emphasis is placed on responses to step changes in feed stream concentrations and to substrate pulses injected directly into the culture supernatant. In general, the enrichment culture was better able to handle transients involving methyl isobutyl ketone, the preferred carbon substrate. However, the highly complex response patterns observed clearly indicated major gaps in knowledge concerning the physiology of methyl ketone-oxidizing bacteria. In spite of the two carbon substrates investigated being major environmental pollutants, their removal in waste biotreatment processes is remarkably little understood. |
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