Multiphase Bioreactor Design

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CHAPTER ELEVEN PULSING BIOREACTORS JUAN M.LEMA, ENRIQUE ROCA, ANGELES SANROMÁN, M.JOSÉ NÚÑEZ, M.TERESA MOREIRA AND GUMERSINDO FE ...

a) The first one involves the alternating motion of some intrinsic elements of the column. It may be worth mentioning the pulsin ...

concept. In this case, pulsation is the result of the liquid entering the columns, through the pulsation chamber. Once the press ...

perforated plates 1980 which links the pile of plates, causes them to rise and fall, and thus generates the pulsation. The effic ...

or stirred tank reactors with a Rushton turbine, which represents a considerable saving in agitation-aeration energy (Serieys et ...

Figure 11.2 Diagram of bioreactor and pulsing device. 2a) Bioreactor: 1. Pulsing bioreactors 333 ...

Feeding tank; 2. Pump; 3. Elastic membrane pulsator; 4. Sampling ports; S. Air difusor; 6, 7. Inlet, outlet of thermostated wate ...

particle diameters and fluid viscosities) in a column of L/D=34 (length/diameter) with an inert bed (glass beads) to which the f ...

Figure 11.3 Residence Time Distribution (RTD) curves obtained at Rep=95, in a packed bed reactor with particles of 6 mm diameter ...

generated by the pulsing system. As the solutions exhibit a Newtonian behaviour (viscosity only depending on the temperature), t ...

lift, fluidised or reciprocating bioreactors seemed better suited to particular applications (Brauer, 1991; Fontana et al., 1992 ...

Alcoholic fermentation of glucose by Ca-alginate immobilised Saccharomyces cerevisiae Alcoholic fermentation is a process often ...

Plug flow may be achieved using packed-bed systems, in which the yeast is immobilised in or on a particular support. However, pa ...

In Figure 11.7, the performance of the pulsing system is compared with that of the nonpulsed one. As can be seen, the difference ...

Figure 11.7 Performance of the pulsed and non-pulsed packed bed bioreactor for the production of ethanol by immobilised S. cerev ...

Figure 11.8 Digitalised image of conglomerates of P. chrysosporium. Dark bioparticles correspond to nucleus of original pellets. ...

The effects of pulsation on pellet morphology were analysed by varying the pulsation frequency between 0.5 and 0.05 s−^1 for A. ...