Superior mixing performance for airlift reactor with a net draft tube

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3021-3028

  Fu, Chun Chong ^a   Lu, Shih Yuan ^a   Hsu, Yung Jung ^a   Chen, Gia Chi ^a   Lin, Yi Ren ^a   Wu, Wen Teng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Airlift reactor; Bubble column; Mixing; Modeling; Multiphase reactors; Net draft tube; Transport processes

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; BUBBLE COLUMNS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; FLOW DISTRIBUTIONS; NET COLUMN;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; BUBBLE COLUMN; MIXING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; REACTOR;

EID: 3042534878     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2004.03.031     Document Type: Article

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