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Performance Study of Two Serial Interconnected Chemostats with Mortality.

Manel Dali-Youcef^1,2, Alain Rapaport¹, Tewfik Sari³

¹MISTEA, INRAE, Institut Agro, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

|August 28, 2022

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Adding biomass mortality to a two-chemostat system enhances biogas production efficiency compared to a single chemostat. This serial configuration proves superior under specific operating conditions, especially with a sufficiently large first vessel volume.

Keywords:

Bifurcations Biogas production Chemostat Global stability Gradostat Mortality Operating diagram

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Area of Science:

Biochemical Engineering
Environmental Biotechnology
Mathematical Modeling

Background:

Chemostat systems are widely used for microbial cultivation and bioprocess optimization.
Biomass mortality is a critical factor often overlooked in chemostat modeling.
Serial configurations offer potential advantages over single units in bioprocesses.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze the performance of a two-chemostat serial configuration with biomass mortality.
To compare its efficiency against a single chemostat for output substrate concentration and biogas production.
To characterize operating conditions favoring the serial configuration.

Main Methods:

Mathematical modeling of two chemostats in series with biomass mortality.
Steady-state analysis of substrate concentration and biogas flow rate.
Comparison with a single chemostat model across various growth functions.

Main Results:

The serial configuration can achieve lower output substrate concentration and higher biogas production than a single chemostat.
Efficiency gains are dependent on operating conditions and the volume of the first vessel.
A sufficiently large first vessel volume enables higher relative biogas flow rates in the series system, a phenomenon absent without mortality.

Conclusions:

Incorporating biomass mortality significantly impacts chemostat system performance.
The serial configuration with mortality offers a more efficient bioprocess design under optimal conditions.
This study provides a theoretical framework for optimizing chemostat design in biotechnological applications.