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Review of Liquid Mixing in Packed Bed Biological Reactors

Donald E. Swaine, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1988 - 
- Vol. 4, Iss: 3, pp 134-148
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The use of residence time distribution analysis to characterize the liquid phase hydrodynamics in bioreactors is reviewed in this article, with special emphasis on packed-bed bioreactor, where tracer selection, the method of data analysis and other uses for the data collected in RTD measurements are discussed.
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The use of residence time distribution analysis to characterize the liquid phase hydrodynamics in bioreactors is reviewed, with special emphasis on packed bed bioreactors. The importance of tracer selection, the method of data analysis and other uses for the data collected in RTD measurements are discussed.

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Residence time distribution in the liquid phase of trickle flow in packed columns

TL;DR: In this paper, residence time distributions in columns under trickle-flow conditions have been measured with the injection of a tracer, and the results indicated the occurrence of two different elementary mechanisms causing a spread in residence time, viz. an eddy diffusion process and mass exchange with stagnant areas.
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Mixing in mechanically agitated gas-liquid contactors, bubble columns and modified bubble columns

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of physical properties of the fluid (surface tension, ionic strength, liquid viscosity) and that of the non-Newtonian behavior on mixing time was studied.