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With the synthesis of chemical products through biotechnological processes, it is possible to discover and to explore innumerable routes that can be used to obtain products of high added value. Each route may have particular advantages in obtaining a desired product, compared with others, especially in terms of yield, productivity, easiness to separate the product, economy, and environmental impact. The purpose of this work is the development of a deterministic model for the biochemical synthesis of acrylic acid in order to explore an alternative process. The model is built-up with the tubular reactor equations together with the kinetic representation based on the structured model. The proposed process makes possible to obtain acrylic acid continuously from the sugar cane fermentation.
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Lunelli, B.H., Duarte, E.R., Vasco de Toledo, E.C. et al. A new process for acrylic acid synthesis by fermentative process. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 137, 487–499 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12010-007-9074-y
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