Chemical Engineering Transactions (May 2019)

An Effect of Different Factors on the Production of Mechanically Agitated Multiphase Biophase - Gas - Liquid Systems

  • Magdalena Cudak,
  • Raul Gallego Zarzosa,
  • Isabel Lopez Vazquez,
  • Joanna Karcz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1974171
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 74

Abstract

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The effects of different factors on the production of mechanically agitated multiphase biophase-gas-liquid systems were experimentally studied. The following factors were taken into account: impeller speed n, gas flow rate Vg, type and number of the high speed impeller(s), height H of the fluid in the baffled vessel, sucrose concentration x and concentration c of the yeast suspension. Gas hold-up ? and residence time tR were evaluated graphically and mathematically.