Modelling mixing parameters in concentric-tube airlift bioreactors. Part i: Mixing time

Bioprocess Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 423-428

  Gavrilescu, M ^a   Tudose, R Z ^b  

^a 3a Nagatinskaya Str M   (Romania)

^b GHEORGHE ASACHI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPROCESS; BIOREACTOR; GAS FLOW; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TUBE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0032899031     PISSN: 0178515X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004490050610     Document Type: Article

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