Why I Stopped Trusting My Gut (and Started Trusting My Models) — AI in Lysine Fermentation
Look, I'll be honest. For years I ran bioreactors the way most of us do: set your temperature, set your pH, watch the DO trace, take a sample every few hours, and hope for the best. You tweak the feed rate because "it feels right." You crank up the stirrer because the DO is dropping. You tell yourself you understand the process. You don't. Not really. I'm a bioreactor engineer. I spent years designing and running fermentations the conventional way — Monod kinetics on paper, PID loops on […]