Immobilisation of Rhizopus arrhizuscells on a solid support for industrial production of lipase could offer several advantages. Incontrast to ordinary suspension culture systems, immobilised whole cells have the merits of: (1) avoiding wash-out of cells at a high dilution rate, (2) higher cellconcentration in the reactor and (3) easy separation of cells from the system or the product containing solution[10]. Owing to their importance engineering research of immobilised cells has also been realized and has covered a wide range of aspects, such as immobilising supports, mass transport effects, physical and chemical environment, kinetics and process modelling