Fermentation

How it is used

Used in industrial biotechnology and bioprocess engineering. Processes can be batch, fed-batch or continuous. Engineers optimize the medium, feeding and harvest time. In biochemistry the word has a narrower meaning: getting energy without oxygen, as when yeast makes alcohol.

Example sentences

1. The fermentation runs for 48 hours before we harvest the cells.

2. Switching to fed-batch fermentation doubled our protein yield.

Common collocations

• fed-batch fermentation
• industrial fermentation
• fermentation process
• fermentation tank
• scale up fermentation

Related terms

• bioreactorA vessel in which cells or microorganisms are grown under carefully controlled conditions, such as temperature, pH, oxygen and mixing, to make a product.
• recombinant proteinA protein produced by putting its gene into host cells such as bacteria, yeast or mammalian cells, which then make the protein in large amounts.
• biotechnologyThe use of living cells, organisms or biological molecules to make products or solve problems in medicine, agriculture, industry and the environment.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• fermentation · Food Science & Technology

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