Study of transport phenomena in an immobilized yeast membrane bioreactor

Abstract

A transport study has been conducted for a multilayer UF membrane/dead cell layer/RO membrane system in order to isolate the permeation phenomena of solvent (water) and glucose solute occurring during the bioreaction. It has been found that the transport can be described considering the above system as a series of four barrier layers, including a concentrated boundary layer, a UF membrane, a cell layer, and a RO membrane. While convective and diffusive transport mechanisms are combined