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Citric acid is produced via fermentation using Aspergillus niger. The plant is considered to produce around 1,000 metric tons of citric acid per year. Glucose is used as a carbon source for this fermentation, and it is diluted with water from about 30% to 50%.
Nutrients (i.e., Sources of ammonium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, and zinc) are dissolved in water and heat sterilized.
The extent of the fermentation reaction is set to 99% and the fermentation is carried out for a period of 3.5 days at a temperature of 35 ̊C. Air is supplied at a rate of 0.15 VVM (volume of air per volume of liquid per minute).
Cooling water removes the heat produced by the exothermic process and maintains a constant temperature. To meet the production demand, fermentation is carried out by five fermenters that operate in staggered mode (out of phase); STG01, STG02, STG03, STG04 and STG05. Each fermenter has a vessel volume of 350 m3 and generates broth of around 300 to 315 m3.
Once fermentation is completed, the broth is discharged into the holding tank, which acts as a buffer tank between the fermenter and a rotary vacuum filtration. The pre-separation starts with the removal of biomass with spec of 12 vol/vol cake and 0.3 to 0.4 cake porosity at rotary vacuum filter and then the product (Citric Acid mixtures) is sent to downstream section.
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Category Engineering & Manufacturing
Subcategory Other
Project size Medium
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Required availability As needed
Delivery term: Not specified
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