Liquid flow residence time in a fibrous fixed bed reactor with recycle

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1300-1304

  Martinov, Martin ^a   Hadjiev, Dimiter ^a   Vlaev, Serafim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

"Tanks in series" model; Fibrous bed bio reactors; Fluid dynamics; RTD

Indexed keywords

''TANKS-IN-SERIES'' MODEL; BIOFILTER REACTOR; FIBROUS BED BIO-REACTORS; FIBROUS BED REACTOR; FIXED BED; FIXED BED BIOFILM REACTORS; FIXED BED REACTOR; FLOW REGIMES; FLUID VELOCITIES; GAS LIQUIDS; GAS SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY; GASPHASE; INTERNAL RECIRCULATIONS; KEY PARAMETERS; LIQUID FLOW; MODEL PARAMETERS; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP; REACTOR DESIGNS; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SCALE-UP; TANKS-IN-SERIES; TRACER EXPERIMENT; WASTE REMOVAL; WIRE PACKING;

BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; BIOFILTRATION; BUBBLE COLUMNS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ELECTRON TUBE DIODES; FLUID DYNAMICS; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEWAGE; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; VELOCITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING;

LIQUIDS;

BIOFILM; BIOFILTRATION; BIOREACTOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID DYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER LAW; RESIDENCE TIME; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACER; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM REACTOR; BUBBLE COLUMN REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIXED BED REACTOR; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTOR DESIGN; REACTOR OPERATION; SCALE UP; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GASES; POLYETHYLENE; RHEOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; VINYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 71649084269     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.09.059     Document Type: Article

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