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Silicone rubber membrane bioreactors for bacterial cellulose production

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Cellulose production byAcetobacter pasteurianus was investigated in static culture using four bioreactors with silicone rubber membrane submerged in the medium. The shape of the membrane was flat sheet, flat sack, tube and cylindrical balloon. Production rate of cellulose as well as its yield on consumed glucose by the bacteria grown on the flat type membranes was approximately ten-fold greater than those on the non-flat ones in spite of the same membrane thickness. The membrane reactor using flat sacks of silicone rubber membrane as support of bacterial pellicle can supply greater ratio of surface to volume than a conventional liquid surface culture and is promising for industrial production of bacterial cellulose in large scale.

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  1. Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Niigata Institute of Technology, 1719 Fujihashi, 945-1195, Kashiwazaki, Japan

    Masayuki Onodera, Ikuro Harashima & Kiyoshi Toda

  2. Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoko Asakura

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Onodera, M., Harashima, I., Toda, K. et al. Silicone rubber membrane bioreactors for bacterial cellulose production. Biotechnol. Bioprocess Eng. 7, 289–294 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02932838

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