Volatile organic chemical mass transfer in an external loop airlift bioreactor with a packed bed

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9299-9306

  Nikakhtari, Hossein ^a,b,c   Hill, Gordon A ^c  

^a SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b College of Engineering ^*  (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; DESORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STAINLESS STEEL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

EXTERNAL LOOP AIRLIFT BIOREACTORS (ELAB); MASS-TRANSFER RATES; TRANSIENT CONCENTRATION;

MASS TRANSFER;

BIOREACTOR; PACKED BED; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 29144436668     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie050402l     Document Type: Article

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