Diffusion-controlled autocatalytic reaction: A possible driving force for microbial flocculation

Heng Kwong Tsao; Jyh Ping Hsu

doi:10.1016/0021-9797(90)90305-8

Diffusion-controlled autocatalytic reaction: A possible driving force for microbial flocculation

Heng Kwong Tsao
, Jyh Ping Hsu

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

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Abstract

Assuming that intercellular messages are a requisite to microbial flocculation, we show that, on the basis of the effectiveness factor, the diffusional resistance in a biofloc can be advantageous to an autocatalytic reaction. In other words, the metabolic efficiency of flocculated microbes can be higher than that of the dispersed microbes. Therefore microbes tend to flocculate in certain circumstances.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	246-251
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Volume	135
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9797(90)90305-8
State	Published - 1 Mar 1990

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