Biofluid mechanical investigations in sequencing batch reactor (SBR)

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 599-608

  Zima Kulisiewicz, B E ^a   Diez L ^a   Kowalczyk, W ^b   Hartmann, Chr ^c   Delgado, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Nestlé Research Centre ^*  (Germany)

^c NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluid mechanics; Multiphase reactors; Particle image velocimetry (PIV); Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV); Simulation; Visualilsation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

MULTIPHASE REACTORS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY (PTV);

BIOREACTORS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BIOREACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 36849073627     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.09.048     Document Type: Article

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