Mixing and oxygen transfer in conventional stirred fermentors
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Biotechnology & Bioengineering
- Vol. 25 (12) , 3115-3131
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.260251224
Abstract
A set of experiments has been performed in an industrial 112 m3 fermentor in order to get a complete map of oxygen concentration and temperature distribution in the system. Five fermentations of non‐Newtonian broths of two different strains, in various operating conditions, were examined. A simple model has been developed which takes into account both the mixing and the mass‐transfer properties of the fermentor, and a dimensionless parameter has been identified which is sufficient to characterize the oxygen axial distribution in the reactor in any operating condition.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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