Hydrodynamics of non-Newtonian liquids in external-loop airlift bioreactors - Part 1: Study of the gas holdup

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-26

  Gavrilescu, M ^a   Tudose, R Z ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Romania)

^b GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

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