Improvement of foam breaking and oxygen-transfer performance in a stirred-tank fermenter

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 235-242

  Takesono, Satoshi ^a   Onodera, Masayuki ^a   Toda, Kiyoshi ^a   Yoshida, Masanori ^b   Yamagiwa, Kazuaki ^b   Ohkawa, Akira ^b  

^a NIIGATA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foam breaking performance; Oxygen transfer performance; Rod impeller; Stirred tank fermenter

Indexed keywords

BLOWING AGENTS; CELLS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FERMENTERS; FOAMS; VISCOSITY;

FOAM-BREAKING PERFORMANCE; MECHANICAL FOAM-CONTROL METHOD (MFM); OXYGEN-TRANSFER PERFORMANCE; ROD IMPELLER; STIRRED-TANK FERMENTER (STF);

OXYGEN;

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOAM; IMPELLER; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VISCOSITY; VOLUMETRY;

BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FERMENTATION; GASES; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RHEOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOLUTIONS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33644677900     PISSN: 16157591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00449-005-0028-x     Document Type: Article

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