Key Challenges

Determining the best conditions to produce acetic acid through anaerobic digestion
- What will be the optimum temperature, pH, and amount of nitrogen?
- How will different food waste affect acetic acid production?
Designing a process to turn acetic acid into glutamic acid
- What free cell metabolic pathway will allow the most glutamic acid to be produced?
  - Hard to get operational in the given time frame
- Use fermentation to turn acetic acid into glutamic acid
  - Corynebacterium glutamicum
Develop kinetic model and formula for acetic acid and glutamic acid production
- How to design kinetic model for the chemical reactions?
Make sure the process will be as profitable as possible
- What will be required to get the highest conversion rate of acetic acid and glutamic acid?