Section: Application Domains

Bioprocesses industry

Several industries use micro-organisms or yeasts to product substances of commercial interest (in pharmaceutics, green biotechnology, food making...). Novel investigation techniques in microbiology (such as multistage continuous bioreactors) bring new insights on the metabolic behavior of the various strains. This conducts to revisit old models such as Monod's one, and to look for new estimation and piloting strategies. Those questions are quite closed to those studied in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 , although the ecological aspct is less present (most of the culture are pure ones). The team is naturally asked to contribute together with the specialists to problems related to modeling, simulation and control of these bio-processes.