Oxygen transfer in three scales of concentric tube airlift bioreactors

Biochemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 40-47

  Cerri, M O ^a   Badino, A C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Airlift bioreactors; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer; Newtonian fluids; Non Newtonian fluids; Scale up

Indexed keywords

AIRLIFT BIOREACTORS; CONCENTRIC TUBE; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; INTERNAL-LOOP AIRLIFT REACTORS; LIQUID VISCOSITY; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OXYGEN MASS TRANSFER; OXYGEN TRANSFER; REACTOR INTERNALS; SCALE-UP; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITIES; VISCOSITY EFFECTS; VOLUMETRIC OXYGEN TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; WORKING VOLUME;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MASS TRANSFER; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; OXYGEN; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

FLUIDS;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; LIQUID VISCOSITY; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL GAS VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; VOLUMETRIC OXYGEN TRANSFER COEFFICIENT;

EID: 77954311232     PISSN: 1369703X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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