Continuous antibiotic fermentation—design of a 20 litre, single‐stage pilot plant and trials with two contrasting processes
- 1 December 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Biochemical and Microbiological Technology and Engineering
- Vol. 1 (4) , 359-377
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jbmte.390010404
Abstract
The feasibility of producing antibiotics by single‐stage continuous fermentation was explored by means of a specially designed pilot plant. Both the chloramphenicol and penicillin processes appeared adaptable to such an operation. At dilution rates of 1·0 and 0·5 volume changes per day respectively, yields of from ¼ to ½ of the maxima obtained in batch operation were maintained in the steady‐state for more than 2 weeks.Keywords
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