Continuous Alcohol Fermentation by a Tower Fermentor with Cell Recycle Using Flocculating Yeast Strain

Flocculating 효모균주의 재순환에 의한 Tower 발효조를 이용한 연속알콜발효

A study on the continuous fermentation with cell recycle by a tower fermentor to produce ethanol has been carried out. ethanol fermentation was conducted with flocculating yeast strain, Saccharomyces cerevisiae TS4, to compare the ethanol productivity with conventional continuous process. Employing a 15% glucose feed, a cell density of 50 g/l was obtaind. The ethanol productivity of the cell recycle system was found to be 26.5g EtOH/1-hr, which was nearly 7.5 times higher than the conventional continuous process without cell recycle. A cell recycle ratio of 7 to 8 resulted in the highest ethanol productivity and cell concentration. Thus the cell recycle ratio was found to be a key factor in controlling the production of clarified overflow liquid. An aeration rate above 3.8 $\times$ 10-3 VVM seemed to decrease the ethanol productivity. The continuous fermentation with cell recycle was successfully used in the separation of cells from fermentation broth with enhancement of mixing in the tower fermentor.

Tower fermentor를 이용한 연속 알콜발효에서 cell re-cycle과 aeration에 대한 영향을 검토하였다. 균주는 floc-culationg 효모인 Saccharomyces cerecisiae TS4를 를 사용하였다. 15% glucose를 사용한 cell recycle system의 연속 알콜발효에서 cell 농도는 50%/1였고, ethanol productiv는 26.4g EtOH/l-hr로서 cell농도가 가장 높은 값을 나타내었으며, aeration rate는 3.8$\times$ $10^-^3$ VVM이상부터는 ethanol pro-ductivity가 감소하였다.