Analysis of substrate inhibition models

The techniques of applied non-linear dynamical systems theory will be applied to investigate mathematical models for substrate inhibition. Many industrial processes in the field of bioprocess engineering are subject to substrate inhibition and many models have therefore been developed to account for these phenomena. Substrate inhibition is common in aerobic fermentation processes and in the biological treatment of industrial wastewaters such as those containing ammonia, nitrates and volatile acids. The aim of this work is to determine whether these models predicted fundamentally different behavior or whether they only differ in minor details.