Generic flowsheet model for early inventory estimates of industrial microbial processes. II. Downstream processing

Material and energy balance data are crucial in various economic and environmental assessments. However, at an early stage of process design these are not available. A model (CeBER Bioprocess Modeller) was developed to provide this data for microbial bioprocesses. A previous paper describes the model development, product formation/biomass growth stages, while this paper explains the downstream processing.85