Simulation of oxygen concentration profile in calcium alginate gel beads entrapping microbes during biological phenol degradation

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 859-872

  Shishido, Masahiro ^a   Toda, Masayuki ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DIFFUSION; GELS; MASS TRANSFER; MICROORGANISMS; PHENOLS; SUBSTRATES;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOL DEGRADATION; CALCIUM ALGINATE GEL BEADS; MICROBES; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION PROFILE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION RATE; SUBSTRATE INHIBITION;

OXYGEN;

EID: 0030111224     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(95)00332-0     Document Type: Article

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