Liquid mixing and phase hold-ups in gas producing fluidized bed bioreactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 617-627

  Buffière, Pierre ^a   Fonade, Christian ^b   Moletta, René ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INSA   (France)

Author keywords

Bioreactors; Gas production; Hold ups; Mixing; Three phase fluidization

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; DENITRIFICATION; FERMENTATION; FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOMASS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DENITRIFICATION; FERMENTATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDIZATION; FLUIDIZED BEDS; GAS GENERATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; REACTION KINETICS;

DISPERSED PLUG FLOW MODEL; GAS HOLDUP; PHASE MIXING;

BIOREACTORS;

FLUIDIZED BED; GAS PRODUCTION; LIQUID-LIQUID MIXING;

EID: 0032006794     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00347-3     Document Type: Article

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