Studies of mixing in a concentric tube airlift bioreactor with different spargers

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 709-719

  Merchuk, J C ^a   Contreras, A ^b   Garcia F ^b   Molina, E ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Airlift; Axial dispersion; Gas hold up; Liquid velocity; Mixing time; Sparger design

Indexed keywords

AIRLIFT REACTOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COALESCENCE; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; POROSITY; SEAWATER; TRANSITION FLOW; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

AIRLIFTS; AXIAL DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; BODENSTEIN NUMBER; FROUDE NUMBER; GAS HOLDUP; SPARGERS; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITY;

BIOREACTORS;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; BIOREACTOR; MIXING; SEA WATER;

EID: 0032006038     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00340-0     Document Type: Article

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