Transient CFD modeling of toluene waste gas biodegradation in a gas-liquid-solid three-phase airlift loop reactor by immobilized Pseudomonas putida

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 172, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 735-745

  Wang, Xue ^a,b   Jia, Xiaoqiang ^a   Wen, Jianping ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Airlift loop reactor; Biodegradation; Three phase; Toluene waste gas; Transient 3D CFD model

Indexed keywords

AIRLIFT LOOP REACTOR; AXIAL VELOCITY; BIOTREATMENTS; BUBBLE COALESCENCE; CFD METHOD; CFD MODELING; CFD MODELS; CFD SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENT DATA; GAS-LIQUID-SOLID; LIQUID PHASE; LOCAL DISPERSION; MASS TRANSFER RATE; OPTIMIZED SIMULATION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RATE-LIMITING STEPS; REMOVAL EFFICIENCIES; THREE-PHASE; WASTE GAS;

BIODEGRADATION; COALESCENCE; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MASS TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; REACTOR OPERATION; TOLUENE; TURBULENCE MODELS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 80051875577     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2011.06.052     Document Type: Article

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