Schrödinger stated in his landmark book, What is Life?, that life feeds on negative entropy. In
this contribution, the validity of this statement is discussed through a careful thermodynamic …

The paper gives a review on the recent development of bioprocess engineering. It includes
monitoring of product formation processes by flow injection analysis, various types of …

To prevent the loss of raw material in ethanol production by anaerobic yeast cultures,
glycerol formation has to be reduced. In theory, this may be done by providing the yeast with …

Biomass measurement is one of the most critical measurements in biotechnological
processes. The technologies developed for the measurement of biomass in situ have …

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae predominantly ferments glucose to ethanol at high
external glucose concentrations, irrespective of the presence of oxygen. In contrast, at low …

Energy balances play an increasingly important role in quantitative descriptions of growth
processes, both for biological research and for process design in biotechnology. This …

Aerobic chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were performed under carbon-,
nitrogen-, and dual carbon-and nitrogen-limiting conditions. The glucose concentration was …

Biochemical engineering is one of the pillars of our basic technological knowledge, with
applications in the food, pharmaceutical, biotechnological and water-treatment industries …

In several earlier studies, different key features of heat production and thermodynamic
properties of microorganisms were identified, although at the time it was not always possible …

The energetics and accumulation of solutes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae were investigated
for cells grown aerobically in a chemostat under NaCl stress and glucose limitation …