Bubble characteristics and mass transfer in an airlift reactor with multiple net draft tubes

Bioprocess Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 323-328

  Tung, H L ^a   Tu, C C ^a   Chang, Y Y ^a   Wu, W T ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 0031859682     PISSN: 0178515X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004490050450     Document Type: Article

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