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Abstract : |
The performance of packed bed reactor has been analysed by considering diffusional resistance of the biofilm. The mod el equations have been solved by the method of orthogonal collocation from the transient to steady state conditions for various classical enzyme activation kinetics. For all the models of activation considered, an increase in the inlet substrate concentration decrease the steady state conversion in the reactor. However, an increase in the Peclet number has been found to improve the conversion. The effects of various other process variables of physical importance were also investigated parametrically., |
