Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation, 2nd Edition

Module 6

Biochemical Reactors

Biochemical reactors are often the critical component in a biochemical process system, taking raw materials and converting them into valuable products using live cells. Sometimes these reactors exhibit interesting steady-state and dynamic behavior that can create challenges for designing and operating control systems, as illustrated by a simple 2-state model of such a reactor in this module. The sections of the module are as follows:

After studying this module the reader should be able to understand

• Monod model kinetics are a subset of Substrate Inhibition model kinetics

• The multiple steady-state solutions to Substrate Inhibition models

• The stability behavior of the different solutions to the Substrate Inhibition ...