Modeling of an airlift reactor with floating solids for wastewater treatment

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 81, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 900-905

  Merchuk, José C ^a   Shechter, Ronen ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Wise Water Technologies Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

3 Phase airlift reactor; Mathematical model; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIRLIFT REACTORS; FLOATING SOLIDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; SEPARATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; GAS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PHASE; REACTOR; SOLID; VELOCITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 2942647924     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450810375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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