Discussion:
Calculating Growth Kinetics in a Batch Reactor
Bacteria used to degrade a contaminant in a bacth reactor are found to grown on the contaminant with Monod Kinetics. Assuming Umax (the max specific growth rate)=10 per day, and Ks (called half velocity constant)=5mg/L and Kd (the decay constant)=0.05 per day.
At what value of S (the substrate concentration) will dX/dt=0. (X is the biomass concentration).
I am not sure how to find X and S:
dx/dt=(Umax)(X)=0
Umax(X)=0
Umax(S/Ks+S)X=0
Monod model assumes that the test chemical is the sole growth limitinG compound in system.