(Gas-)liquid-solid circulating fluidized beds and their potential applications to bioreactor engineering

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 82-94

  Zhu, Jing Xu ^a   Zheng, Ying ^b   Karamanev, Dimitre G ^a   Bassi, Amarjeet S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioreactors; Circulating fluidized bed; Fluidization regimes; Gas liquid solid fluidization; Hydrodynamics; Liquid solids fluidization; Modelling

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FLUIDIZATION; GASES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SOLIDS;

CIRCULATING FLUIDIZED BED; FLUIDIZATION REGIMES; GAS LIQUID SOLID FLUIDIZATION; LIQUID SOLIDS FLUIDIZATION;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

BIOREACTOR; GAS-LIQUID-SOLID FLUIDIZED BED; LIQUID-SOLID FLUIDIZED BED; REVIEW;

BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; FLUIDIZED BED; PHASE SEPARATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0033949877     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450780113     Document Type: Review

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