Application of CFD to Analyze the Hydrodynamic Behaviour of a Bioreactor with a Double Impeller

Stirred bioreactors are commonly used unit operations in the pharmaceutical industry. In this study, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used in order to analyze the influence of the impeller configuration (Segment−Segment and Segment−Rushton impeller configurations) and the i...

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Main Authors: Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Melih Tamer, Ricardo Martinez Villegas, Andrew Chiappetta, Farhad Ein-Mozaffari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-10-01
Series:Processes
Subjects:
cfd
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9717/7/10/694