Abstract:Given the partial oxidation products of methane as the chemical feedstock for single‐cell protein (SCP) production, their conversion efficiency is optimized by optimal selection of the pertinent microorganisms that can utilize the feedstocks. The coenzymes of the three oxidation steps from methanol to formaldehyde to formate and carbon dioxide as well as the pathway involved in carbon fixation determine the cell‐mass yield. Microorganisms which follows the ribulose monophosphate cycle and which have coenzymes … Show more
“…The microorganism Methylococcus capsulatus can grow on cheap carbon sources such as methane and methanol (Papoutsakis et al, 1978;Hanson and Hanson, 1996;Bothe et al, 2002). The protein content of M. capsulatus is approximately 70% on a dry mass basis.…”
“…The microorganism Methylococcus capsulatus can grow on cheap carbon sources such as methane and methanol (Papoutsakis et al, 1978;Hanson and Hanson, 1996;Bothe et al, 2002). The protein content of M. capsulatus is approximately 70% on a dry mass basis.…”
“…Methanol has been actively considered as a feedstock for SCP processes (Cooney, 1975;Goldberg et al, 1976;Papoutsakis et al, 1978a). A particular, though not unique, disadvantage to continuous ure culture cultivation of methanol utilizing organisms is t l e possibility of two nontrivial steady states and the reactor stability problems that are thus generated.…”
A = back-flow ratio of p h a s e k for cell j , (= fk,/Fk) = ratio of feed flowrates, FJF, c = error tolerance, used to d e t e r m i n e convergence of solution LITERATURE CITED Boyadzhiev
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