Hydrodynamics of stirred bioreactors

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-32

  Nienow, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; BLENDING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FERMENTERS; FLOW PATTERNS; MIXING; OXYGEN; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; ROTORS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY;

AERATION CONCEPTS; AGITATION; BROTH; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; FLOW NUMBERS; HOMOGENIZATION; OXYGEN TRANSFER; POWER NUMBER REYNOLDS NUMBER PLOTS; RUSHTON TURBINE IMPELLER;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031648103     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3098990     Document Type: Article

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