A new strategy of glucose supply in a microbial fermentation model

Abstract

Strategy of glucose supply to achieve an optimal productivity of ethanol production of a yeast cell is one of the \ud main features in a microbial fermentation process. Beside a known continuous glucose supply, in this study we consider a \ud new supply strategy so called the on-off supply. An optimal control theory is applied to the fermentation system to ???nd the optimal rate of glucose supply and time of supply. The optimization problem is solved numerically using Differential Evolutionary algorithm. We find two alternative solutions that we can choose to get the similar result: either long period process with low supply or short period process with high glucose supply