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| Author(s): |
Betânia Hoss Lunelli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Química |
| Defense date: | 2007-08-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Rubens Maciel Filho;
Glaucia Maria Ferreira Pinto;
Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães Pereira
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| Advisor: | Rubens Maciel Filho |
| Abstract | |
The acrylic acid synthesis by fermentative process is a recent subject, with few available information in literature and it has demonstrated each time more interest of researchers. Through the mathematical modeling, it is possible to obtain a better understanding of the process behavior if mechanistic models are developed. The purpose of this work is the deterministic model development for the biotechnological process of acrylic acid synthesis through an alternative metabolic route, aiming the studies of both the steady state and dynamic behavior of the process. To investigate the parameters interactions as well as to identify the parameters with the most significant impact on the model experimental design was used and operational parameters were optimized. The purpose is to understand the process and to present an alternative methodology for its production. From of the developed models was possible to obtain the concentration profiles of the process components main. After identified the influence of the operational, kinetic and design parameters about the process, the operational parameters were optimized through the application of the response surface methodology and the successive quadratic programming optimization method. With the optimization of parameters was possible to find out the optimal operational conditions and thus to increase the yield and acrylic acid concentration as well as to perceive the limitation of optimization methods used. In the models with structured kinetic were applied control strategies, where was possible to operate the bioreactor safe and efficiently as well as to increase the acrylic acid final yield. With the realization of this work, it follows that the models developed consist of a set of interesting tools to predict and investigate the behavior of the acrylic acid synthesis by fermentative process, whereas in the literature are not yet available works about modeling of the acrylic acid synthesis from fermentative routes, as well as can to serve as support for studies of genetic manipulation aiming at to obtain microorganisms with capacity to produce acrylic acid in competitive economically conditions (AU) | |