Effects of aspergillus niger inoculum concentration upon the kinetics of starchy wastewater pretreatment in a tanks-in-series bioreactor under transitory conditions
(2007) Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering — Vol. 24, n° 4, p. 499-507 (2007)
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Agathos, Spiros N. 
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- This paper discusses the effects of three Aspergillus niger inoculum concentrations (0.12, 2.3 and 3.6 g/l) upon the kinetics of starch pretreatment under aerobic and transitory conditions using a tanks-in-series reactor. A synthetic wastewater containing starch as model polysaccharide was fed into the reactor system to study this Polymer transformation by Aspergillus niger. Starch and metabolites (oligosaccharides with a molecular weight lower than 1 kDa) in the individual reactors were quantified respectively by the starch iodine complex (SIC) and anthrone methods. Enzyme activities were characterised with APT ZYM kits. Starch degradation and metabolite accumulation were both influenced by both fungal inoculum and reactor HRT. Starch degradation improved from 34 to 99% with a parallel in increase inoculum concentration from 0.12 to 3.6 g/l. An overall of 400 mg/l of metabolites accumulated in the reactor system. A. niger secreted both extracellular and cell-wall-bound enzymes among which amylases.
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Coulibaly, L., & Agathos, S. N. (2007). Effects of aspergillus niger inoculum concentration upon the kinetics of starchy wastewater pretreatment in a tanks-in-series bioreactor under transitory conditions. Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 24(4), 499-507. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-66322007000400004 (Original work published 2007)