Exploring Rate of Fermentation via Integration

by Muskaan Punjabi

Submitted : Fall 2019

Fermentation is a very old and useful process used in biomedical engineering. Fermentation can be used to track the growth of microorganisms with the use of the carbon dioxide evolution rate and the oxygen uptake rate. The development of a mathematical model to integrate the carbon dioxide evolution rate and the oxygen uptake rate can be used to calculate the total amount of carbon dioxide produced and oxygen consumed. Oxygen is consumed during glycolysis to produce pyruvate molecules which undergo fermentation while carbon dioxide is released during the fermentation process. The rate of fermentation can be determined if the rate of the products and reactants can be determined. A manual model will be generated. Using a mathematical approach will minimize errors in finding the rate of fermentation. Comparing the results obtained from the proposed model to a preexisting model will aid in checking for precision and accuracy. The rate of fermentation can be determined and used to map the growth of microorganisms.

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