Cellulose can be converted to sugar by the following enzymatic attack

and both celluboise and glucose act to inhibit the breakdown. To study the kinetics of this reaction a number of runs are made in a mixed flow reactor kept at 50°C and using a feed of finely shredded cellulose (C_A0 = 25 kg/m3), enzyme (C_EO = 0.01 kg/m³, same for all runs), and various inhibitors. The results are as follows:

What is the role of glucose in the breakdown of cellulose (find the type of inhibition, and the rate equation). The rate data for these problems are modified from Ghose and Das, Advances in Biochemical Engineering, 1, 66 (1971).

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