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Article history: In this work, production of inulinase was carried out in a packed bed reactor (PBR) under solid state
Received 14 February 2013 fermentation. Kluyveromyces marxianus var. marxianus was used to produce the inulinase using pressmud
Received in revised form 11 March 2013 as substrate. The parameters like air flow rate, packing density and particle size were optimized using
Accepted 25 March 2013
response surface methodology (RSM) to maximize the inulinase production. The optimum conditions for
Available online 3 April 2013
the maximum inulinase production were: air flow rate – 0.82 L/min, packing density – 40 g/L and particle
size – 0.0044 mm (mesh – 14/20). At these optimized conditions, the production of inulinase was found
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to be 300.5 unit/gram of dry substrate (U/gds).
RSM
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PBR
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Table 1 Table 3
Range and levels of process variables in packed bed reactor. ANOVA for inulinase production in PBR.
Process variables Code Levels Source Coefficient factor Sum of squares DF F P>F
Fig. 3. 3D plot showing the effect of packing density and particle size on inulinase
Fig. 1. 3D plot showing the effect of air flow rate and packing density on inulinase
production by K. marxianus var. marxianus using pressmud in a PBR.
production by K. marxianus var. marxianus using Pressmud in a PBR.
4. Conclusions
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