Calculating liquid distribution in shake flasks on rotary shakers at waterlike viscosities

Biochemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 200-208

  Büchs, Jochen ^a   Maier, Ulrike ^a   Lotter, Stefan ^a   Peter, Cyril P ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fermentation; Mass transfer; Modelling; Power consumption; Scale down; Shake flask

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROTATIONAL FLOW; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

CIRCULAR TRANSLATORIC MOVEMENTS; MECHANISTICAL DESIGN; OPERATING CONDITIONS; SHAKE FLASK;

BIOREACTORS;

WATER;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HEIGHT; LIQUID; MASS; MODEL; MOTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SHAKE FLASK; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISCOSITY; VOLUMETRY; WORK;

EID: 33947581606     PISSN: 1369703X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2006.12.005     Document Type: Article

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