The performance of an aerated stirred tank reactor on VHG batch fermentations

• Author(s): Raposo, Sara ; Lima-Costa, Maria Emília ; Rodrigues, B.
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4818
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Stirred-tank reactor (STR); Batch cultures; Carob by-products
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The quest for new and renewable energy sources has greatly increased due to the depletion of fossil fuels reserves. Agro-food wastes appear as a cheap and renewable energy source that can contain great amounts of carbon to be transformed in bioethanol that can be used as additive to gasoline.