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SSN 2410-7751 (Print)
ISSN 2410-776X (Online)

"Biotechnologia Acta" V. 10, No 3, 2017
 https://doi.org/10.15407/biotech10.03.050
Р. 50-56, Bibliography 13, English
Universal Decimal Classification: 664.15

 3 2017

 IGRADIENT-CONTINUOUS YEAST CULTIVATION FOR THE ALCOHOL PRODUCTION FROM MOLASSES

Levandovskiy L. V., Myhailyk V. S.

Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Ukraine

This work objective is to find the technological conditions for the intensification of yeast growth in the gradient-continuous yeast cultivation process. Experiments on four sequential yeast chemostats (connected into a battery) demonstrated broad possibilities to influence the metabolic activity of yeast and the alcohol production depending on the content of molasses introduced into the second, third and fourth yeast generators. Adding the molasses according to the 3:2:1 scheme in quantities, which are sufficient to achieve the initial concentration of solids of 26.5 g/100 cm3 to the end of the process resulted in high accumulation of yeast in the medium (up to 99 g/dm3).

It is demonstrated that the highest ratio of economic effect of biomass synthesis from molasses sugars (88 g/100 g) is achieved when molasses is added according to the 1:2:2.5 scheme and the initial solids concentration in the medium is near 12 g/100 cm3.

Key words: yeast, ethanol, molasses.

© Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2017