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International Journal of Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJASEAT)-IJASEAT |
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Issue |
Volume-7,Issue-1, Spl. Iss-2 ( Mar, 2019 ) | |||||||||
Paper Title |
Exponential Approximation of Consumption Rate of Carbon Source in Numerical Simulation of Microbial Depolymerization Process | |||||||||
Author Name |
Masaji Watanabe, Fusako Kawai | |||||||||
Affilition |
Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan Professor Emeritus, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan | |||||||||
Pages |
51-55 | |||||||||
Abstract |
This study demonstrates the validity of assumption that a part of microbial consumption is converted directly to cells in microbial depolymerization processes. The exponential consumption of residual polymer in a culture medium is incorporated in a numerical simulation of a microbial depolymerization process. Weight distributions obtained experimentally were incorporated into inverse problems for a time factor and a molecular factor of a degradation rate. Once those inverse problems were solved, a microbial depolymerization process was simulated. A mathematical model is described, numerical techniques are described, and numerical results are introduced. Keywords - Biodegradation, Polymer, Mathematical model, Numerical simulation, Inverse problem. | |||||||||
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