Oxygen mass transfer in a stirred tank bioreactor using different impeller configurations for environmental purposes

Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Karimi, Ali ^a,b   Golbabaei, Farideh ^b   Mehrnia, Momammad Reza ^c   Neghab, Masoud ^a   Mohammad, Kazem ^b   Nikpey, Ahmad ^d   Pourmand, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Impellers; Oxygen mass transfer coefficients; Stirred tank bioreactor

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTOR; MASS TRANSFER; OXYGEN; TURBINE; WASTE TREATMENT;

EID: 84879041096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2052336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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