%0 Thesis %A Lu, Yuzhao %D 2018 %T Modelling of batch dextransucrase production %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Modelling_of_batch_dextransucrase_production/9239768 %2 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/16822169 %K untagged %K Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified %X This study concerns an industrial enzyme-producing fermentation process. The bacterium Leuconostoc mesenteroides grows in a sucrose-containing medium to produce dextransucrase, an extracellular enzyme used to convert sucrose to dextran. This microbially produced biopolymer has unique properties of medicinal use. [Continues.] %I Loughborough University