Section: Contracts and Grants with Industry

BioInh

Participants : Jérôme Harmand, Alain Rapaport, Tewfik Sari.

The project BioInh (Modelling and optimization of bio-conversion of plant materials in inhomogeneous media) proposed by the UMR IATE (Ingénierie des Agropolymères et Technologies Emergentes, Montpellier) and the team MODEMIC is funded by the Agropolis foundation (Montpellier) for two years since 2009. The project aims at studying inhomogeneity effects in enzymatic reactors with the help of models of cascade of reactors. The presence of inhibition in the growth function may lead to unstabilities and drive the system toward several possible equilibria, one of them only being interesting in terms of yield and productivity. First experiments have been run but have not been finished due the interruption of our former postdoc for health reasons.