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K Toda1, I J Dunn

  • 1Chemical Engineering Laboratory (TCL), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland.

Biotechnology and Bioengineering
|March 1, 1982
PubMed

Keywords:
fermentor designcontinuous bioprocessingmicrobial kineticsindustrial fermentation

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