Flow characteristics in an airlift membrane bioreactor

Chemical Product and Process Modeling

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Khalili, Amirhossein ^a   Mehrnia, M R ^a   Mostoufi, Navid ^a   Sarrafzadeh, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

CFD; Flow characteristics; Membrane bioreactor; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; K- MODELS; LIQUID LEVEL; LIQUID PHASE; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; MEMBRANE SURFACE; THREE DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; TWO FLUID MODEL;

BIOREACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBRANES; SHEAR STRESS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 79953231766     PISSN: 21946159     EISSN: 19342659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1934-2659.1403     Document Type: Article

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