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

• Autor(es): Raposo, Sara ; Lima-Costa, Maria Emília ; Rodrigues, B.
• Data: 2012
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4818
• Origem: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Assunto(s): Stirred-tank reactor (STR); Batch cultures; Carob by-products
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.