Relationship between mass transfer coefficient and liquid flow velocity in heterogenous biofilms using microelectrodes and confocal microscopy

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 681-688

  Stoodley, Paul ^a   Yang, Shunong ^b   Lappin Scott, Hilary ^a   Lewandowski, Zbigniew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b NALCO COMPANY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Confocal scanning laser microscopy; Laminar flow; Liquid flow velocity; Mass transfer coefficient; Microelectrodes; Reynolds number; Sherwood number

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FILM GROWTH; LAMINAR FLOW; LASER APPLICATIONS; MASS TRANSFER; MICROELECTRODES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER MICROSCOPY (CSLM); PARTICLE TRACKING TECHNIQUE; SCHMIDT NUMBER; SHERWOOD NUMBER;

BIOFILMS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; CELL AGGREGATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLOW RATE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 0343035577     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0290(19971220)56:6<681::AID-BIT11>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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