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Comparison of the entropies of biomass and Gibbs energies of combustion of biomass reported in the literature

Range	Table - link
Organism	Various
Reference	von Stockar, U. Liu, J. Does microbial life always feed on negative entropy? Thermodynamic analysis of microbial growth. 1999. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1412(3) p.198 table 4PubMed ID10482783
Primary Source	[33] J.A. Roels, Energetics and Kinetics in Biotechnology, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1983. [34] H.J. Morowitz, Energy Flow in Biology: Biological Organization as a Problem in Thermal Physics, Academic Press, New York, 1968. [35] J.A. Roels, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 22 (1980) 2457-2514. [36] R. Grosz, G. Stephanopoulos, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 25 (1983) 2149-2163. [37] E.H. Battley, Biotechnol. Bioeng. 41 (1993) 422-428. [38] E.H. Battley, R.L. Putnam, J. Boerio-Goates, Thermochim. Acta 298 (1997) 37-46. [39] E.H. Battley, Thermochim. Acta 326 (1999) 7-15.PubMed ID18574813, 18609570
Method	See top row of table
Comments	For E.coli and S. cerevisiae. A C-mole of an organic or generalised compound is the number of carbon atoms expressed as multiple of the number of Avogadro.
Entered by	Uri M
ID	104860