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Metabolic Modeling And Engineering Of Gas Fermentation In Bubble Column Reactors, Jin Chen

Doctoral Dissertations

Gas fermentation is an attractive route to produce alternative fuels and chemicals from non-food feedstocks, such as waste gas streams from steel mills and synthesis gas (mainly CO and H₂) produced from municipal solid waste through gasification. While commercial development of gas fermentation technology is underway, many research problems must be addressed to further advance the technology towards economic competitiveness. A particularly important challenge is to develop integrated metabolic and transport models that describe gas fermentation in industrially relevant bubble column reactors. I have developed and evaluated a spatiotemporal metabolic model for bubble column reactors with the syngas …