Solid-liquid mass transfers in an Airlift Reactor incorporating alginate beads for the application as a bioartificial liver

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2370-2378

  Demming, Stefanie ^a   Gautier, Aude ^b   Legallais, Cécile ^b   Ould Dris, Aissa ^b  

^a Institut für Mikrotechnik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Airlift Reactor; Alginate beads; Bioartificial liver; Bioreactor; Mass transfer; Swelling

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUIDIZED BEDS; LIVER; MASS TRANSFER;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; ALGINATE BEADS; BIOARTIFICIAL LIVER; BIOREACTOR; SWELLING;

FLUIDIZATION;

EID: 53549088609     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2008.01.013     Document Type: Article

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