Viscous media in tower bioreactors: Hydrodynamic characteristics and mass transfer properties

Studies in tower reactors with viscous liquids on flow regime, effective shear rate, liquid mixing, gas holdup and gas/ liquid mass transfer (kLa) are reviewed. Additional new data are reported for solutions of glycerol, CMC, PAA, and xanthan in bubble columns with diameters of 0.06, 0.14 and 0.30 m diameter. The wide variation of the flow behaviour index (1 to 0.18) allows to evaluate the effective shear rate due to the gas flow. New dimensionless correlations are developed based on the own and literature data, applied to predict kLa in fermentation broths, and compared to other reactor types.

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