Acetic acid—friend or foe in anaerobic batch conversion of glucose to ethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae?
✍ Scribed by Mohammad J. Taherzadeh; Claes Niklasson; Gunnar Lidén
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 631 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2509
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✦ Synopsis
The permissible region of growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on glucose under anaerobic conditions was determined as a function of both pH and the concentration of added acetic acid to the medium. In the absence of acetic acid, growth was possible at a pH as low as 2.5, whereas a total acetic acid addition of 10 gl-1 increased the minimum allowable pH for growth to 4.5. The results showed that the concentration of the undissociated form of acetic acid should not exceed 5 gl-1 in the medium for growth to occur. The addition of acetic acid had a profound effect on growth energetics, thereby leading to an increased ethanol yield on glucose. At a concentration of 3.3 g l-i of undissociated acetic acid, the ethanol yield was 20% higher than without added acetic acid. Furthermore, the biomass and glycerol yields decreased by 45 and 33%, respectively.