An electrically driven gas-liquid-liquid contactor for bioreactor and other applications

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1877-1883

  Tsouris, Costas ^a   Borole, Abhijeet P ^a   Kaufman, Eric N ^a   DePaoli, David W ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCATALYSTS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DESULFURIZATION; ELECTRIC CONTACTORS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRODES; MASS TRANSFER; OXYGEN; PARAFFINS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VOLUME FRACTION;

DIBENZOTHIOPHENE; EMULSION PHASE CONTACTORS (EPC); HEXADECANE;

BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTOR; GAS-LIQUID MIXING;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CATALYST; DESULFURIZATION; EMULSION; GAS; LIQUID; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 0032910390     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9802515     Document Type: Article

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