Lactic acid production by aggregated continuous cultures ofLactobacillus acidophilusunder aerobic conditions

✍ Scribed by Karel Melzoch; Leona Konopásková

• Book ID: 104633518
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 233 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0141-5492
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00129329

✦ Synopsis

Summarv

The ability of Lactobacillus acidophilus to aggregate, to produce lactic acid for a long term continuous fermentation process and to exist as aggregate cell cultures in a gas-lift reactor under aerobic conditions was studied. The main product of fermentation was lactic acid and only the traces of other end-products were determined. The highest fermentation efficiency of lactic acid was 98.6% and the highest productivity was 9.6 g.l".h-' of lactic acid.