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Simulation of particle size distribution changes occurring during high-pressure disruption of bakers' yeast
S F Siddiqi1, N J Titchener-Hooker, P A Shamlou
1The Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, England.
Abstract:
Measurements of size distributions are provided for the breakage of commercial packed bakers' yeast cells as a function of operating pressure and number of passes through a Manton Gaulin high-pressure homogenizer. A two parameter model was developed, based upon the use of a Boltzmann function, to simulate the changes in size distribution that accompany the cell breakage process. The effects of operating pressure and number of passes are incorporated in the model and the result is used to simulate the particle size distribution of the cell homogenate. The results show that there is little breakage below a threshold pressure of 115 bar and above which breakage is critically dependent upon the pressure and number of passes through the homogenizer. The analysis provides a means of studying the efficiency of centrifugation that may follow cell disruption and provides the basis for further studies of size distribution changes accompanying cell disruption.
