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An ultrafiltration membrane reactor for obtaining experimental reaction rates at defined concentrations of inhibiting sugars during enzymatic saccharification of alkali-pretreated sallow: Formulation of a simple empirical rate equation

✍ Scribed by Ingrid Frennesson; Gun Trägårdh; Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
465 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3592

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✦ Synopsis


The kinetics of the enzymatic hydrolysis of sodium hydroxide-pretreated sallow were studied in an ultrafiltration membrane reactor in the presence of different concentrations of glucose. In the UF membrane reactor lowmolecular-weight products were continuously removed at a low dilution rate and replaced by a buffer solution that contained different concentrations of glucose, which made it possible to keep the inhibiting product concentration constant throughout an experiment. The reaction rate was related to the degree of substrate conversion and a mathematical relationship was formulated that describes the influence of the product concentration on the rate coefficient.