WALL PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS AND BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS AT SEVERAL POSITIONS IN AN AIRLIFT FERMENTOR
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Chemical Engineering Communications
- Vol. 29 (1-6) , 311-336
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00986448408940165
Abstract
Measurements of bubble size distribution using direct photographic methods and image analysis have been made on a cylindrical split-column airlift fermentor. Wall pressure fluctuation measurements have also been collected at several vertical positions for a number of systems with different viscosities operated over a range of air flow rates. Tap water, salt water, and CMC in water solutions have been used in the investigation.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Modelling flow pattern transitions for steady upward gas‐liquid flow in vertical tubesAIChE Journal, 1980
- Influence of polymer additives on the gas‐liquid mass transfer in stirred tanksAIChE Journal, 1978
- The design of gas sparged devices for viscous liquid systemsAIChE Journal, 1978
- Heat Transfer in Aerated Tower Filled with Non-Newtonian LiquidIndustrial & Engineering Chemistry Process Design and Development, 1977
- A coalescence redispersion model for drop-size distributions in an agitated vesselChemical Engineering Science, 1976
- Bubble Size, Interfacial Area, and Liquid-Phase Mass Transfer Coefficient in Bubble ColumnsIndustrial & Engineering Chemistry Process Design and Development, 1974
- Bubble coalescence in viscous fluidsAIChE Journal, 1971
- Measurements on the Effect of Transducer Size on the Resolution of Boundary-Layer Pressure FluctuationsThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1969
- Fundamentals of the hydrodynamic mechanism of splitting in dispersion processesAIChE Journal, 1955
- On the theory of statistical and isotropic turbulenceProceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 1948