Abstract
Gluconobacter melanogenus 3293 converts glycerol to dihydroxyacetone(DHA) during exponential growth on a yeast extract-phosphate medium at pH 7. The efficiency of this conversion in 25-liter batch fermentations has been found to increase over threefold, when oxygen tension is controlled by increasing the partial pressure of oxygen in the aeration. Conversion of glycerol to DHA does not occur under oxygen-limited fermentation conditions. When the dissolved oxygen tension was maintained at 0.05 atmospheres (using oxygen-enriched air), quantitative conversion of up to 100 g of glycerol/liter to DHA was obtained in 33 h. The amount of glycerol converted can be increased without increasing impeller speed or aeration rate. This increase is not the result of increased production of cell mass. The specific conversion of glycerol to DHA increased from 12.2 g of DHA/g of cell mass at the point of maximum conversion to 35.8 with oxygen enrichment. This increased specific production occurred even though the specific growth rate during the period of oxygen enrichment decreased from 0.23 to 0.06/h.
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