A database system for fermentation processes

✍ Scribed by I. Endo; T. Nagamune

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 293 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-7605
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00387252

✦ Synopsis

Data base management is needed in the whole industries, particularly in the fermentation industry, whose jobs are tedious yet require carefulness. The most important problem in the database system is not how to collect many informations, but how to handle the meaningful ones.

The authors have recently developed an on-line monitoring and control system for the fermentation processes in co-operation with Fuji Facom Co. Ltd. and Komatsugawa Chemical Engineering Co. Ltd.

This system enables us to measure directly those concentrations in fermentation systems which have been measured by offline so far, such as cell mass, substrate and metabolic products. The physiological activities of a microorganism, such as specific rate of cellular growth, that of substrate consumption, that of metabolites production, etc., became estimable precisely by eliminating the effect of noises.

By enlarging the function of our monitoring and control system, we have developed a database system which is applicable in job scheduling not only in the laboratory but also in the production line, in automatic resource allocation and fault analyses of the fermentation processes.