Roussos Sevastianos auteur aut IRD Pyle D.L. auteur aut IRD text conferencePaper eng text/pdf reformatted digital access This work presents the continuous production of fungal biomass and enzymes by solid state fermentation (SSF) in a counter-current reactor adapted for this purpose. Pre-germinated conidia of Aspergillus niger were used as an inoculum and sugarcane bagasse, embedded with a nutritive solution, was the solid support. The solids residence time distribution (RTD) was carried out by feeding one impulse of blue-coloured humidified bagasse and this RTD was fixed at 20 hours. This study demonstrated that the values of the measured parameters (pH, moisture, biomass, glucoamylase production) were similar to those reported for batch SSF using the same solid support and micro-organism. A marked increase in biomass occurred from the progressive compartment (from compartment no.1 to no.9) into the reactor and the enzyme production was important (40 IU/g dry exit solids). No mycelium damage or sporulation was observed. The above results confirmed that the continuous production of enzymes by SSF under no sterile conditions was successful. Inoculation with pre-germinated conidia shortened the processing time and allowed control of the age of the mycelium in each compartment. Aeration was accomplished by natural convection and moisture content had to be controlled. This process can be applied to the continuous production of fungal biomass and metabolites in SSF with industrial applications using environmentally friendly biotechnology. (Résumé d'auteur) specialized FERMENTATION EN MILIEU SOLIDE MILIEU DE CULTURE PRODUCTION INDUSTRIELLE MICROORGANISME CHAMPIGNON ENZYME GERMINATION FERMENTEUR DE LABORATOIRE BAGASSE MYCELIUM GLUCOAMYLASE 084FERMEN01 Solid State Fermentation : International Training Course, Curitiba (BRA), 1997/10/06-10 98-1 21-35 multigr. Raimbault Maurice ed. edt IRD Soccol C.R. ed. edt IRD Chuzel G. ed. edt IRD Montpellier ORSTOM 1998 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010013192 [F A010013189] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010013192 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/doc34-01/010013192.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 1998-03-17 2011-07-19 fdi:010013192 fre