Determination of Effective Shear Rate in a Pilot-plant External Loop Airlift Reactor

Shear rate is an important design parameter in bio-reactors for its role in estimating cell-damage rate in shear-sensitive environment as well as in correlating hydrodynamics and mass transfer coefficients in non-Newtonian systems. One of the serious shortcomings in the analysis of non-Newtonian beh...

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Main Authors: W.A. Al-Masry, M. Chetty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1998-01-01
Series:Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1018363918306883