Characteristics of three-phase internal loop airlift bioreactors with complete gas recirculation for non-Newtonian fluids

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 193-205

  Wen, Jianping ^a   Jia, Xiaoqiang ^a   Cheng, Xianrui ^a   Yang, Peng ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airlift bioreactors; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer; Modeling; Non Newtonian; Three phase

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; GASES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

GAS RECIRCULATION; GAS-LIQUID MASS TRANSFER; GAS-LIQUID VOLUMETRIC MASS TRANSFER; INTERNAL LOOP AIRLIFT BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTORS;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; ARTICLE; FLOW; GAS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY; VOLUMETRY;

BIOREACTORS; GASES; MODELS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 21544470644     PISSN: 16157591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00449-005-0401-9     Document Type: Article

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