Studies on the expansion characteristics of the granular bed present in EGSB bioreactors

Water SA

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 555-560

  Liu, Yong Hong ^a,b   He, Yan Ling ^a   Yang, Shu Cheng ^a   An, Chun Jiang ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

EGSB; Granular bed expansion; Mean settling velocity; Modelling; Richardson Zaki equation; UASB

Indexed keywords

MEAN SETTLING VELOCITY; MODELING; RICHARDSON-ZAKI EQUATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERNS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SETTLING TANKS;

BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW PATTERNS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SETTLING TANKS;

BIOREACTOR; EXPANSION; GRANULAR MEDIUM; RICHARDS EQUATION; SETTLING VELOCITY;

EID: 33749532667     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 03784738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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