This
study highlights the scale-up of enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat
starch from the phenomenological-based semiphysical model and control
theory tools. The state variables involved were glucose concentration
(L
1), maltodextrins (L
5), and temperature (L
rL)
for liquefaction and glucose concentration (S
1), maltodextrins (S
5), and temperature
(L
rS) for saccharification. The design
variables included initial substrate concentration (S
0), reactor volume (V
r), and
initial enzyme concentrations for liquefaction (E
0L) and saccharification (E
0S). The hierarchy of low scale (LS) for the liquefaction and saccharification
stage was L
1 > L
5 > T
rL and S
1 > S
5 > T
rS. The values of the design variables changed between
LS and
the high scale (HS) from 161 to 180 g/L, from 0.05 to 15.10 mL/L,
and from 0.26 to 0.76 mL/L for S
0, E
0L, and E
0S, respectively.
These values maintained the hierarchy in the saccharification stage
but not in the liquefaction stage.
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