ETHANOL FERMENTATION OF MIXED GLUCOSE AND XYLOSE BY PICHIA STIPITIS

Pichia stipitis CBS 5773 yeast cells were used to ferment the mixed substrates consisted of glucose andxylose to produce ethanol.The effects of aeration rate,initial substrate concentration and pH on substrateutilization and ethanol yield were evaluated.During batch fermentation,the oscillation phenomena in cell growthwere observed at low aeration rate,whereas the diauxic growth at high aeration rate.The substrate utilizationratio and ethanol yield reached 95％ and 0.46g/g respectively under appropriate operation conditions.Amodified unstructural model was proposed to simulate the diauxic cell growth,substrate consumption andproduct formation.