The production of L-malic acid (used in medicines and food additives) was produced over immobilized cells of Bacillus jlavum MA-3 [Proc. 2nd Joint China/USA Chemjcal Engineering Conference, Beijing,...

The production of L-malic acid (used in medicines and food additives) was produced over immobilized cells of Bacillus jlavum MA-3 [Proc. 2nd Joint China/USA Chemjcal Engineering Conference, Beijing, China, Vol. III, p. 1033, 1997].

The following rate law was obtruned for the rate of formation of product:

where V_max
= 76, K_m
= 0.048 mol/dm³, and c*_p
= 1.69 mol/dm³. Design a reactor to process 10 m³/day of 2 mol/dm³
of fumaric acid.