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A Fundamental Analysis Of Continuous Flow Bioreactor Models With Recycle Around Each Reactor Governed By Contois Kinetics. Iii. Two And Three Reactor Cascades, Rubayyi Alqahtani, Mark Nelson, Annette Worthy
A Fundamental Analysis Of Continuous Flow Bioreactor Models With Recycle Around Each Reactor Governed By Contois Kinetics. Iii. Two And Three Reactor Cascades, Rubayyi Alqahtani, Mark Nelson, Annette Worthy
Associate Professor Annette Worthy
The steady-state treatment of industrial wastewaters in a cascade reactor with recycle is analyzed. A number of cascades with alternative arrangements of the settling units are considered. Specifically, we consider the case when the recycle stream leaving a settling unit which is placed around a reactor goes back into the feed stream for that reactor. The Contois kinetic model is used to study the degradation of biodegradable organic materials. The steady-states for the model are found and their stability determined as a function of the total residence time in the cascade. Asymptotic solutions in the limit of large total residence …
Analysis Of A Chemostat Model With Variable Yield Coefficient: Contois Kinetics., Rubayyi Alqahtani, Mark Nelson, Annette Worthy
Analysis Of A Chemostat Model With Variable Yield Coefficient: Contois Kinetics., Rubayyi Alqahtani, Mark Nelson, Annette Worthy
Associate Professor Annette Worthy
Food processing wastewaters and slurries typically contain high concentrations of biodegradable organic matter. Before the wastewater can be discharged, the pollutant concentration must be reduced. One way to achieve this is by using a biological species (biomass) that consumes the organic matter (substrate). We investigate an unstructured kinetic model for a bioreactor with a variable yield coefficient, taking into account the death rate of the microorganisms. The growth rate is given by a Contois expression, which is often used to model the growth of biomass in wastewaters containing biodegradable organic materials. The analysis shows that the system has natural oscillations …