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20-Bio-A5 Systems Analysis & Control

Worked solutions to 3 past sittings (2017), 18 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Questions by sitting

December 2017

  1. Question 1: Quasi-Steady-State Rate Law for a Two-Site Enzyme Mechanism
  2. Question 2: Determining the Inhibition Constant and Inhibition Type
  3. Question 3: Immobilized-Enzyme Batch Reactor with Enzyme Deactivation
  4. Question 4: Elemental-Balance Stoichiometry of Aerobic Glucose-to-Biomass Growth
  5. Question 5: Continuous Fermentation with Cell Recycle (Self-Flocculating Yeast)
  6. Question 6: Batch, Chemostat, and Fed-Batch Culture Kinetics Compared

May 2017

  1. Question 1: Quasi-Steady-State Equations for a Substrate-Inhibited Mechanism
  2. Question 2: Immobilized-Enzyme CSTR — Bead Volume and Diffusion Limitation
  3. Question 3: Batch Substrate-Inhibited Kinetics — Time to Half-Consume Substrate
  4. Question 4: Batch Fermentation with a Growth-Associated Product
  5. Question 5: Contois-Kinetics Chemostat with Cell Death
  6. Question 6: Fed-Batch Reactor — Volume and Pseudo-Steady-State Substrate Expressions

Undated paper

  1. Question 1: Rapid-Equilibrium Rate Law for a Mixed-Inhibition Mechanism
  2. Question 2: Inhibitor Constant and Inhibition Type from Initial-Rate Data
  3. Question 3: External-Mass-Transfer-Limited Immobilized-Enzyme Plate Reactor
  4. Question 4: Aerobic Growth Stoichiometry — Yield and CO 2 Production
  5. Question 5: Batch Fermenter — Time to 50% of Maximum Product Concentration
  6. Question 6: Continuous Tubular Steam Sterilizer — Vitamin Retention and Sterilization Probability