ABSTRACT
Biotechnology is the key for many types of products in pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and fermentation industries. To increase productivity and at the same time save raw material, energy, and time, the optimum operating mode of the bioreactor should be found. This chapter develops a systematic approach for selection of the best operating mode for a particular process for an interval during the fermentation. Bioengineers obtain information regarding the selection of a practical operating mode from biochemical experiments. These experiments are time-consuming and expensive. The algorithm is user-friendly and completely menu driven such that the user can extract the necessary information without going into the formulation of the model. The package also displays the time profile of the bioprocess variables (BPVs) of interest. The complete simulation of a bioprocess and detection of the best op-mode are possible using BIPROSIM, which is based on MATLAB®.
