%0 PDF %T Design of Dynamic Experiments for the Optimization of Batch Fermentation Processes: The Case of Penicillin. %A Afif, Fredy. %8 2017-04-18 %R http://localhost/files/qz20t4790 %X Abstract: This work aims to investigate the use of a systematic methodology to optimize the operating conditions of batch fermentation processes, presented by Georgakis (Georgakis, 2009). This methodology is a novel model-free technique, as opposed to model-based optimization techniques. The methodology consists of designing certain experiments, obtaining a response surface model, and optimizing the response surface model. This methodology has been called Design of Dynamic Experiments (Georgakis, 2009) and is an extension of the well-studied and widely used classical Design of Experiments technique (Montgomery, 2005)(Box & Draper, 2007). The main difference is that the DoDE methodology allows for the design of experiments in which at least one of the decision variables is a time-varying one. This allows us to explore several substrate feeding strategies, and to determine the optimal one. Two different designs of interest to fed-batch fermentations are studied. One in which the substrate is fed in a systematic fashion throughout the fermentation (centralized), and one in which the fermentation is split into two segments, corresponding to the growth phase and the production phase (decentralized). The results of the two designs are compared. The production of penicillin is used as a case study for this methodology, using a well-established and widely studied model by Bajpai and Reuss (Bajpai and Reuss, 1980). Centralized designs are found to be more efficient than decentralized designs. Using four dynamic subfactors gives the optimal penicillin production when using Centralized designs. Using three dynamic subfactors gives the optimal penicillin production when using Decentralized design. However, the number of experiments required for each optimal design is the same. Centralized Design has the advantage of only needing to add one extra factor to test the significance of adding one more dynamic subfactor, whereas the Decentralized Design needs two extra factors to test the significance of adding one more dynamic subfactor to each phase.; Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2011.; Submitted to the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering.; Advisor: Christos Georgakis.; Committee: Blaine Pfeifer, and Christoph Borgers.; Keyword: Chemical Engineering. %[ 2022-10-12 %9 Text %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution