A coupled population balance model and CFD approach for the simulation of mixing issues in lab-scale and industrial bioreactors

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 27-40

  Morchain, Jérôme ^a,b,c   Gabelle, Jean Christophe ^a,b,c   Cockx, Arnaud ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UMR792 INGÉNIERIE DES SYSTÈMES BIOLOGIQUES ET DES PROCÉDÉS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aerated stirred tank; Biokinetic model; Computational fluid dynamics; Population balance model; Scale up

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BIOKINETIC MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS CODES; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; POPULATION BALANCE MODELING; SCALE-UP; STIRRED TANK; VOLUMETRIC MASS TRANSFER COEFFICIENT;

BIOREACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84889686639     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14238     Document Type: Article

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