Question

3) What is type of reactor used to carry out biochemical reaction? Explain it’s working with a neat diagram. Give one example of biochemical reaction

Answer 1

There are many type of reactors used to carry biochemical reaction but most commonly used type reactor is Stirred type continous reactor also called Tank reactor.The schematic of suh type of reactor is shown below

In this reactor reactants( mixture of substrate and enzyme) enter the reactor from inlet and cells culture or enzymes which utilise this substtrate as food to produce product by enzyme substrate kinetics at precise temperature, pressure and Ph conditions which are required for reaction. From the outlet product stream consisting of Product, substrate unreacted and cells are taken out separated by apropriate separation process and purified to desired levels. The temperature is maintained by coolent jacketed outside the reactor and Ph is maintained by adding acid base in reactor. Thus bioche,ical reactions are carried out

Example of biochemical reaction in fermentation in which yeast or bacteria( enzymes) breaks down the carbohydrates (substrate) into alcohols (product)

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