Factors affecting the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose in batch and continuous reactors: computer simulation and
A V Gusakov1, A P Sinitsyn, A A Klyosov
1Department of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 117234, USSR.
Biotechnology and Bioengineering
|May 1, 1987
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