A novel centrifugal impeller bioreactor. II. Oxygen transfer and power consumption
A novel centrifugal impeller bioreactor. II. Oxygen transfer and power consumption
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DOI:
10.1002/(sici)1097-0290(19960905)51:5
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发表时间:
2000-03
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Si‐Jing Wang;J. Zhong
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作者:
Si‐Jing Wang;J. Zhong
The effects of the impeller configuration, aeration rate, and agitation speed on oxygen transfer coefficient KLa were studied in a newly designed centrifugal impeller bioreactor (5‐L). The oxygen transfer rates in the novel bioreactor were also compared with those in a cell‐lift bioreactor with comparable dimensions. The cell‐lift impeller produced much higher surface oxygen transfer rates than the centrifugal one at an agitation speed over 200 rpm. This result was in good agreement with our observation that the cell‐lift impeller produced much higher unfavorable turbulence. In addition, the experiments using granulated agar particles as pseudo plant cells indicated that the KLa value decreased steadily with an increase in agar particle concentration, and the centrifugal impeller still demonstrated a larger KLa than the cell lift up to a high pseudo cell concentration of 19.5 g dry weight (DW)/L (under 150 rpm and 0.20 vvm) or 22.3 g DW/L (under 200 rpm and 0.20 vvm). Furthermore, the correlation between power number and impeller Reynolds number for both the centrifugal and the cell‐lift impellers was successfully obtained, which could be used for predicting the power input required by each impeller. From the results obtained, the centrifugal impeller bioreactor is expected to have great potential in its application to shear‐sensitive biological systems.