Multiphase Bioreactor Design

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CHAPTER TEN BIOFILM REACTORS LUIS F.MELO^1 AND ROSÁRIO OLIVEIRA^2 (^1) Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Porto, ...

obviously too simple and should be extended to include organic debris and small inorganic particles (clays, metallic oxides, etc ...

and viscoelasticity of the microbial film increase the pressure drop of the fluid along the reactor. The tendency for cells to a ...

processes, the disk is (almost) completely submerged at any time, in order to avoid contact of the biofilm with the air. Trickli ...

Up-flow anaerobic blanket reactor (UASB) Expanded granular sludge blanket (EGSB) Figure 10.1 Schematic representation of a circu ...

of biofilms attached to a solid surface. Granules have a lower polymeric content, are usually more compact than microbial films ...

hydrophobicity, porosity, roughness, particle diameter, density and concentration can be of great importance. An irreversible in ...

reactors it is possible to use dense particles (e.g. basalt) with small diameters without having high pumping power requirements ...

That is to say, the culture medium must be periodically replaced by fresh medium, according to the microbial growth rate (Teixei ...

penetrate into the water. Microbial biofilms are not homogeneous matrices, showing regions with different concentrations of cell ...

the solid surface, providing them with the essential elements for their metabolism. As a result, the biofilm mass increases by m ...

with velocity at an almost linear rate, hydrodynamic detachment forces have a stronger impact, since they are proportional to th ...

There are cases where the activity of biofilms is dependent on the relative concentrations of different substances in the liquid ...

However, fixed biomass does not necessarily have higher biological activity per unit of organic dry mass than the suspended cell ...

Diffusion-Reaction Model: Calculation of Substrate Consumption Rate for a Single Substrate and a Single Microbial Species in Ste ...

only for describing the specific growth rate of suspended cells in simple situations (e.g., without substrate or product inhibit ...

(8) Solutions of this equation are generally obtained by numerical methods. The analytical integration of the equation is howeve ...