The strategy developed for high conversion and the multiplicity problems of biochemical reaction in a real CSTR with Cholette’s model

Abstract

Abstract In this paper we used the examples for four kinetic schemes under substrate and product inhibition of a biochemical reaction occurring in a real CSTR with Cholette’s model to demonstrate the strategy for high conversion and the multiplicity problem. In addition, it is found that the non-ideal mixing indeed influences the necessary and sufficient conditions for input multiplicity and output multiplicity. Meanwhile, for each of four kinetic schemes under substrate and product inhibition of a biochemical reaction, the input multiplicity regions are found inside the output multiplicity regions. This fact reveals that when deriving an operating strategy to obtain a high conversion and to avoid the control problem, only the output multiplicity is needed to consider even in the CSTR with the input and output multiplicity occurring simultaneously.