ON THE APPROPRIATENESS OF USE OF A CONTINUOUS FORMULATION FOR THE MODELING OF DISCRETE MULTIREACTANT SYSTEMS FOLLOWING MICHAELIS-MENTEN KINETICS

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1994

Authors

SILVA, TR (Author) Other; F. Xavier Malcata (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Bioprocess Engineering

Vol. 10

Pages: 235-240

ISSN: 0178-515X

Publisher: Springer

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Authenticus ID: P-001-K2X

DOI: 10.1007/bf00369535

Abstract (EN): The possibility of solving the mass balances to a multiplicity of substrates within a CSTR in the presence of a chemical reaction following Michaelis-Menten kinetics using the assumption that the discrete distribution of said substrates is well approximated by an equivalent continuous distribution on the molecular weight is explored. The applicability of such reasoning is tested with a convenient numerical example. In addition to providing the limiting behavior of the discrete formulation as the number of homologous substrates increases, the continuous formulation yields in general simpler functional forms for the final distribution of substrates than the discrete counterpart due to the recursive nature of the solution in the latter case.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6