Activation energy, half-life and yield of the hydrolysis reaction of sucrose catalyzed by the enzyme invertase produced by yeast saccharomyces cerevisiae

The enzyme invertase is produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It hydrolyzes sucrose into glucose and fructose, having a great utility industrially. With this it is necessary to know its main characteristics to be able to know how to optimize it. In this research the enzyme invertase was worked in two types of reactors very common in the industrial area, the batch reactor and the fixed bed reactor. In the experiments described here, the type of reaction involved in hydrolysis, whether exothermic or endothermic, and what is its activation energy was determined.