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Airlift Bioreactors: Review of Recent Advances
Author(s) -
Merchuk José C.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.5450810301
Subject(s) - airlift , bioprocess , bioreactor , reactor design , process engineering , biochemical engineering , environmental science , computer science , engineering , nuclear engineering , chemistry , chemical engineering , organic chemistry
Airlift reactors are popular in the modern bioprocess research and development, over a broad spectrum of processes. Those range from the production of very expensive biochemicals to wastewater treatment. In both extremes the reason behind the selection of the airlift reactor is related to fluid dynamic characteristics. During the last few years, a large number of research papers dealing with the dependence of reactor performance on liquid flow have been published. In some of them, descriptions of devices that have been developed in order to improve, or to gain further control of the fluid patterns in the reactor are reported.