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Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol.70, No.3, 179-188, 1998
Stability characteristics of a biochemical reactor with predator-prey relationship - A substrate inhibition case
The present work characterizes static behaviour of a CSTBR with existing food chain relationship, for a case when base carbon and energy source exhibits toxic influence on enzymatic pathways of all microorganisms. Some bifurcation diagrams for representative process parameters are presented, together with characteristic phase plane plots. Conditions leading to induction of persistent oscillations of substrate and cell concentration are derived, and ways to avoid them are also given herein.