Digestion

Enzyme Catalytized Digestion

We now consider the case of only enzyme catalytized digestion taking place. This type of reaction usually occurs in the tube-like intestines. Again we will compare the exit conversion for a CSTR and a PFR for the same mass flow rate.

Above is the performance of a CSTR graphed solely against enzyme catalytized digestion.

Above the performance of PFR is graphed against enzyme catalytized digestion. Notice for the same mass flow rate it has a higher conversion (assuming the volume of the CSTR and the PFR are the same).

However,as opposed to a autocatalytic reaction, for the case of a enzyme catalytized reaction when the performance of a CSTR and PFR is compared, the PFR is always more efficient than the CSTR. Once again this is seen best by graphing the performance of a PFR against a CSTR with enzyme catalytized digestion ².