Fermentation Reactors MCQs

Yield coefficient represents

The lowest biomass yield in a culture of Escherichia coli will be in

When two populations compete for a single growth limiting substrate in a continuous fermenter, which organism would not be washed out?

The continuous cultures are not widely used in industry because

The lowest yield of ATP /is in

Mixing in an anaerobic sludge blanket reactor is due to

In batch culture, protogon is produced from peptone during the stationary phase with a yield of 0.4 protogon mg per g of peptone. If it is to be produced in a chemostat at a dilution rate of 0.5 h-1 from a medium containing 10 g.l-1 of peptone, then the rate of protogon synthesis would be

Formation of end product by Lactococcus lactis will become non-growth associated as lactic acid accumulates because

Which of the following would not be subjected to the "glucose effect"?