Bioreactor Scale-Up and Kinetic Modeling of Lactic Acid and Biomass Production by Enterococcus faecalis SLT13 during Batch Culture on Hydrolyzed Cheese Whey

Table 1

Main experimental data from the different batch cultures of Enterococcus faecalis SLT13.

Parameters	2 L M17	2 L HW	20 L HW
Biomass (g/L)	3.16	2.57	2.67
Lactic acid (LA) (g/L)	6.04	32.23	22.8
Yps (g/g)	0.314	0.98	0.72
Yxs (g/g)	0.142	0.069	0.074
Volumetric productivity LA (g/L·h)	0.60	1.33	0.95