The theoretical framework of agent based monitoring for use in the production of gellan gum in a microbial fermentation system

• Main Authors: Eleni Mangina, Ioannis Giavasis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2003-06-01
• Series: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• Subjects: agent-based monitoring; polysaccharides production
• Online Access: http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/001632.pdf

This paper introduces the application of an agent-based software system for monitoring the process of gellan gum production. Gellan gum (biopolymer) is produced in industrial scale in bioreactors (sealed vessels) where the microbial culture is grown in a liquid fermentation medium under controlled environmental conditions (temperature, pH, aeration and agitation). The multi agent system will view the monitoring problem as the interaction of simple independent software entities, for effective use of the available data. The outcome of this agent – based solution will include the automatic on-line data acquisition and correlation of the most important parameters. Within such a dynamic process, like the gellan gum production, certan parameters (such as biomass, gellan and glucose concentration) change continuously and have to be measured and controlled. Also automatic knowledge derivation from past cases through the multi agent software system can be of future benefit.