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20-Bio-A5 Systems Analysis & Control: Undated paper

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  1. Question 1 Rapid-Equilibrium Rate Law for a Mixed-Inhibition Mechanism
  2. Question 2 Inhibitor Constant and Inhibition Type from Initial-Rate Data
  3. Question 3 External-Mass-Transfer-Limited Immobilized-Enzyme Plate Reactor
  4. Question 4 Aerobic Growth Stoichiometry — Yield and CO 2 Production
  5. Question 5 Batch Fermenter — Time to 50% of Maximum Product Concentration
  6. Question 6 Continuous Tubular Steam Sterilizer — Vitamin Retention and Sterilization Probability

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National Exams / EGBC — May 2019 — 04-Bio-A5 Enzyme and Microbial Kinetics. Three-hour open-book examination; any non-communicating calculator is permitted. Six questions constitute a complete paper (10 + 15 + 20 + 20 + 15 + 20 = 100 marks). Content spans a rapid-equilibrium mixed-inhibition mechanism, Lineweaver–Burk inhibitor-type determination from initial-rate data, external-mass-transfer-limited immobilized-enzyme kinetics on a flat plate, aerobic-growth stoichiometry with an elemental-balance yield calculation, logistic growth-associated product-formation kinetics in a batch fermenter, and continuous tubular-sterilizer design (vitamin retention and probability of successful sterilization).

Reference texts: Bailey & Ollis, Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals (2nd ed.) — enzyme inhibition mechanisms and kinetics (Ch. 3), immobilized-enzyme diffusion-reaction (Ch. 8), stoichiometry and yields (Ch. 6), unstructured growth/product kinetics (Ch. 7), and batch sterilization design (Ch. 9). All quantities are used exactly as printed on the exam.

Check — four points were resolved before authoring: (1) the printed marking scheme lists six separate questions (10, 15, 15+5, 15+5, 15, 10+10 marks) — Questions 1 and 2 are separate questions, treated as such here to match the marking scheme exactly. (2) Question 1 asks for the “rapid equilibrium approach,” not the QSSA. (3) Question 2’s data table has four rows, not three — including the row I = 0, S = 0.02, V = 0.9 mmol/(mL·min), which is essential (it is the only other no-inhibitor point). (4) Question 6’s printed sub-parts really are only “b)” and “c)” — part “a)” is genuinely absent from the paper; the marking scheme’s (a) 10 marks / (b) 10 marks are mapped onto the two printed sub-parts b) and c) respectively.