Improving mixing in microbioreactors

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3036-3046

  Li, X ^a   van der Steen, G ^a   van Dedem, G W K ^a   van der Wielen, L A M ^a   van Leeuwen, M ^a   van Gulik, W M ^a   Heijnen, J J ^a   Krommenhoek, E E ^b   Gardeniers, J G E ^b   van den Berg, A ^b   Ottens, M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Microbioreactor; Microfluidics; Micromixing; Rayleigh B nard convection; Recycle flow mixing

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MICROFLUIDICS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

MICROBIOREACTOR; MICROMIXING; RAYLEIGH-BÉNARD CONVECTION; RECYCLE FLOW MIXING;

MIXING;

BIOREACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

EID: 43049183185     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2008.02.036     Document Type: Article

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