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Heat Transfer Strategies in Itaconic Acid Production by Using Aspergillus Terreus MTCC 479

V. Meena

Department of Chemical Engineering, A.U. College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam India.

Corresponding Author E-mail: meena_sekhar09@yahoo.co.in

ABSTRACT: Itaconic acid was best produced by fungal species than bacterial species. The Aspergillus terreus were known to be the best species for itaconic acid production among the different fungal species studied. However, there was no comprehensive study on using latest technologies for increasing the productivity at industrial level and it was not properly established. For increasing the productivity, the influence of starting substrate concentration, the optimum timing of additional substrate and the possibility of semi-continuous fermentation were analyzed in a bench-top fermentation. In the present study we can analyse the requirements as follows: The total heat requirement for 3lt bench top fermentor - 103.16 kcal/ hr. Design of sparger – 10holes with 3mm diameter having 5mm pitch and Diameter of the shaft required – 13mm for the maximum yield of itaconic acid of 27 g/lt under optimized conditions by A.terreus.

KEYWORDS: Heat requirement; Itaconic acid; Shaft; Sparger.

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