Porosity estimation of a membrane filled with dextran produced by immobilized dextransucrase

AIChE Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 275-278

  Kawakita, Hidetaka ^a   Hamamoto, Kohshi ^a   Seto, Hirokazu ^a   Ohto, Keisuke ^a   Harada, Hiroyuki ^a   Inoue, Katsutoshi ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dextran; Dextransucrase; Kozeny Carman equation; Membrane; Porosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449130980     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.11654     Document Type: Article

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