Abstract
For dynamic behaviors of continuous airlift bioreactors, a mathematical model based on a tanks-in-series model with backflow has been developed. The equations describing the dynamics of airlift bioreactors are material balances for micro-organism, substrate, dissolved oxygen and oxygen in gas-phase and heat balances. Non-ideal mixing of liquid and gas phases is taken into account using a tanks-in-series model with backflow. The batch operation, startup operation and the consequence of plant failure were simulated and the effects of design and operating parameters for an airlift bioreactor on its dynamic behaviors were discussed. The concentration profiles of micro-organism, substrate, dissolved oxygen and oxygen in gas-phase and the temperature profile in an airlift bioreactors and their dynamics were obtained. The computational results indicate that the transients of a chemostat in the case of bubble column bioreactor are slower compared with those in the case of airlift bioreactor. The proposed simulator is more precise as compared with models published previously in the literature and therefore provides more reliable and rational examination of continuous airlift bioreactor performance.
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