Trickle-bed root culture bioreactor design and scale-up: Growth, fluid-dynamics, and oxygen mass transfer

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 248-260

  Ramakrishnan, Divakar ^a   Curtis, Wayne R ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Root growth rate; Scale up; Trickle bed root reactor

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; OXYGEN; TISSUE; VOLUME FRACTION;

ROOT GROWTH RATES; TISSUE RESPIRATION; TRICKLE-BED REACTOR SYSTEMS; TRICKLE-BED ROOT CULTURE;

BIOREACTORS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOREACTOR; FLOW KINETICS; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; ROOT RESPIRATION;

BIOMASS; BIOREACTORS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HYOSCYAMUS; OXYGEN; PLANT ROOTS;

GOES;

EID: 7044273937     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.20231     Document Type: Article

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