Abstract
Ethanol production by calcium alginate-immobilized baker's yeast (Saccharor/tyces cereviszae) was studied in the batch fermentation using glucose medium as a feed. Immobilied cells were stable between $30^{\circ}C$ and $40^{\circ}C$ whereas free cells were stable between $30^{\circ}C$ and $37^{\circ}C$ The beads were showed constant ethanol productivity during 720 hours (30 days) over. Fermentation characteristics of immobilized baker's yeast were examined changing the initial glucose concentration of broth in fermentation. Initial glucose concentrations employed were 50, 100, 150 and 200 g/l, respectively. In 15% gucose medium, maximum specific growth rate, maximum ethanol yield and ethanol concentration were observed as 0.092 $h^{-1}$, 0.45, 67.5 g/l, respectively.
효모를 Ca-alginate에 고정화하여 회분발효에서 glucose로부터 에탄올을 생산하여 다음의 결과를 얻었다. 100g wet weight/l($4.3 \times 10^9$ cell/l)의 효모를 pH 7.0, 2% 농도의 Ca-alginate에 고정화하였다. 10 beads volume이 에탄올 생산에 최적이었고 30일 (720 시간) 동안 bead의 수명이 지속되었다. 회분식 발효에서 온도안정성은 고정화 효모의 경우 30~$40^{\circ}C$였으며 free cell의 경우 30~$37^{\circ}C$였다. pH 안정성은 pH 4.0~9.0였으며, 에탄올생산 최적 당농도는 15% 였다. 최적조건에서 에탄올수율은 0.45, 생산된 에탄올 농도는 67.6g/l 그리고 에탄올 생산성은 1.99g/l.h로 각각 나타났다.
