Optimizing Fed-Batch Processes with Dynamic Control Flux Balance Analysis

Author(s)
Mathias Gotsmy, Dafni Giannari, Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Jürgen Zanghellini
Abstract

Fed-batch processes are prevalent in biotechnological industries, but design of experiments often results in sub-optimal conditions due to incomplete solution space characterization. We employ a single-level dynamic control (DC) algorithm for dynamic flux balance analysis (dFBA), enhancing efficiency by reducing Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) condition constraints and adapting the algorithm for predicting optimal process length. In a growth-decoupled plasmid DNA production case study, we predict the optimal feeding profile and switching time between growth and production phase. Comparing our algorithm to its predecessor shows a speed-up of at least a factor of four. When the process length is part of the objective function the speed-up becomes considerably larger.

Organisation(s)
Department of Analytical Chemistry
External organisation(s)
acib – Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, University of Toronto, University of Vienna
Journal
IFAC-PapersOnLine
Volume
58
Pages
109-114
No. of pages
6
ISSN
2405-8971
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.10.019
Publication date
09-2024
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
104027 Computational chemistry, 104002 Analytical chemistry, 106005 Bioinformatics
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Control and Systems Engineering
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/13beec36-72cf-4e54-9266-4e6fc8d7bda3