Airlift bioreactor for biological applications with microbubble mediated transport processes
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 2703
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.ces.2015.06.032
- Title of journal
- Chemical Engineering Science
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- First page
- 243
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0009-2509
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper represents a major advance in the design of the widely used gas-lift class of bireactors, innovatively introducing sub-100 micron size microbubbles. Counterintuitively, smaller bubbles lead to 5-times more liquid mixing than conventional fine bubbles. The new design has been widely disseminated and was the journal's most downloaded article for 3.5 years post publication. The work underpins three awards for fermentation scale-up: £300k InnovateUK Energy Catalyst feasibility award (EP/P030238/1), £2.2m InnovateUK IB-Catalyst award (EP/N011511/1) on bioethanol fermentation, and a €2.3m ERA-IB award on biobutanol (including industrial contribution).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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