FERMENTATION ONLY MAKES SENSE WHEN IT’S BROKENDOWN TO DOLLARS AND CENTS

In any fermentation industry, if you are going to carry out a fermentation project it will have to be profitable or at least showing the potential of profitability. Fermentation industries are not charitable organizations that can carry out fermentation research for the purpose of esoteric activity. Money simply does not grow on trees and they have to account for their success or failures to the share holders. Esoteric research can only be carried out in public funded research institutes and universities where financial auditing is not strict and almost unaccountable (at least in this country)
Two of the weakest links in fermentation research here is that:
1 The scientists are very quick to extrapolate the profitability based on incomplete small scale research. This is risky since no scale up studies are properly carried out to test the technical viability of the process
2 They failed to audit the fermentation viability in terms of cost inputs but rather talk about potential market price. This is really a recipe for disaster! A lot of fermentations could be economically non viable if proper financial auditing is carried out
Do not talk about counting the chickens before they are hatched…it is just as good as a pipe dream!
If proper studies are carried out on the costings you might even see the project failure while still on paper
One of the most critical factors influencing the cost of fermentation is cost of energy. In the fermentation industries energy in the form of electrical power are required in so many steps of the fermentation flow
You need energy for heating, cooling, sterilizing, pumping, aerating, stirring and many more. So this must be considered as energy is a limited commodity and will increase in cost in future. Have these factors been thoroughly considered and taken into account before declaring to the world we have the technology to convert biomass to wealth by fermentation?






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