Gas-liquid mass transfer in an internal loop airlift reactor with low density particles

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 853-857

  Hwang, Shyh Jye ^a   Lu, Wen Jang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; FERMENTATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SHEAR STRESS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AIRLIFT BIOREACTORS; GAS-LIQUID MASS TRANSFER;

BIOREACTORS;

MASS TRANSFER; MIXING(GAS/LIQUID); MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; REACTORS-AIRLIFT;

EID: 0030887380     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(96)00392-2     Document Type: Article

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