Abstract
Clostridium acetobutylicum is an anaerobic bacterium that is extensively studied for its ability to produce butanol. Over the past two decades, various genetic and metabolic engineering approaches have been used to investigate the physiology and regulation system of the biphasic metabolic pathway in this organism. However, there has been a relatively limited amount of research focused on the fermentation dynamics of C. acetobutylicum. In this study, we developed a pH-based phenomenological model to predict the fermentative production of butanol from glucose using C. acetobutylicum in a batch system. The model describes the relationship between the dynamics of growth and the production of desired metabolites and the extracellular pH of the media. Our model was found to be successful in predicting the fermentation dynamics of C. acetobutylicum, and the simulations were validated using experimental fermentation data. Furthermore, the proposed model has the potential to be extended to represent the dynamics of butanol production in other fermentation systems, such as fed-batch or continuous fermentation using single and multi-sugars.
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