A theoretical study on the effect of surface roughness on mass transport and transformation in biofilms

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 355-369

  Picioreanu, Cristian ^a,b   Van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^a   Heijnen, Joseph J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Convection; Mass transfer; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT CONVECTION; LAMINAR FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SHERWOOD NUMBER;

BIOFILMS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIOFILMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0034690578     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(20000520)68:4<355::AID-BIT1>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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