Multiphase Bioreactor Design

It is assumed that hexanol will be accessed by cutinase if it is located in the water pool or in the surfactant (micellar) layer ...

Since the partition phenomenon limits the substrate concentration in each sub-phase, the adsorbed substrate is conditioned by it ...

Figure 7.2 General representation of a reverse micelle identifying the partitioning (P 1 , P 2 and P 3 ) adsorption (Kad) and di ...

behaviour of micellar systems and how dissimilar the substrates concentrations accessed by microencapsulated enzymes are. Theref ...

glycerolysis of olive oil in a CSTR with an ultrafilter membrane (polysulfone) to retain the lipase immobilised on liposomes in ...

Figure 7.3 Schematic of MBR operating in a total recirculation mode. A representation of the composite membrane characteristics ...

aggregates or, more likely, as monomers. This leads to the presence of surfactant in the products’ stream and makes the separati ...

Q being the flow rate and A the area of filtration. The membrane permeability, Lp, can be obtained through the relation with the ...

where Cr is the concentration of a compound in the recirculated solution and Cp its concentration in the permeate solution. This ...

Figure 7.4 A—Time course of protein in solution and permeate flow rate. B—Correlation of protein adsorbed and permeate flow rate ...

membrane. As a consequence of this barrier, the permeate flow rate also decreases, although the situation reached an equilibrium ...

(28) whereas the substrate concentration after a single-pass, Sn, is given by: (29) Qr being the recirculation flow rate. Table ...

Continuous Operation of a Micellar Membrane Reactor One of the current issues under investigation in reversed micellar technolog ...

Figure 7.5 Schematic of the membrane bioreactor for continuous operation. Using the general design equation for a reactor: (36) ...

(41) (42) Equation 42 establishes the influence of the recirculation rate on the conversion degree. A recirculation rate, R, hig ...

(49 ) (50) Determination of the single-pass conversion in the MBR The conversion per pass, Xn, is expressed by: (51) If R=10,000 ...

The design equation for an enzymatic CSTR for a reversible reaction at equilibrium is: (54) with (with mmol.min−^1 g−^1 as units ...

If the same normalised residence time is assumed in both reactors, τpfr=τcstr, then: (60) The conversions obtained in both react ...

The half-life time can be obtained from the deactivation constant, kd, using the relation: (63) Continuous operation sometimes l ...

and the linear permeate velocity through the membrane pores, cross-flow velocity, is expressed by: (65) Reynolds number, Re, is ...