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Monitoring and robust adaptive control of fed-batch cultures of microorganisms exhibiting overflow metabolism

par Dewasme, Laurent;Wouwer, Alain Vande;Bogaerts, Philippe
Référence Biotechnologie, agronomie, société et environnement, 14, SPEC. ISSUE 2, page (538)
Publication Publié, 2010

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Overflow metabolism characterizes cells strains that are likely to produce inhibiting by-products resulting from an excess of substrate feeding and a saturated respiratory capacity. The critical substrate level separating the two different metabolic pathways is generally not well defined. Monitoring of this kind of cultures, going from model identification to state estimation, is first discussed. Then, a review of control techniques which all aim at maximizing the cell productivity of fed-batch fermentations is presented. Two main adaptive control strategies, one using an estimation of the critical substrate level as set-point and another regulating the by-product concentration, are proposed. Finally, experimental investigations of an adaptive RST control scheme using the observer polynomial for the regulation of the ethanol concentration in Saccharomyces cerevisiae fed-batch cultures ranging from laboratory to industrial scales, are also presented.