Gas holdup, liquid circulation and mixing behaviour of viscous Newtonian media in a split-cylinder airlift bioreactor

Food and Bioproducts Processing: Transactions of the Institution of of Chemical Engineers, Part C

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-32

  Molina, E ^a   Contreras, A ^a   Chisti, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Airlift bioreactors; Gas holdup; Hydrodynamics; Liquid circulation; Mixing time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043232749     PISSN: 09603085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/096030899532222     Document Type: Article

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