Airlift bioreactor Articles and publications

 

Publications Using AL-100/200 Bioreactors

1. Application of airlift bioreactor for the cultivation of aerobic oleaginous yeast Rhodotorula glutinis with different aeration rates. Hong-Wei Yen and Yi Xian Liu; Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering VOL. 118 No. 2, 2014

2. Cultivation of oleaginous Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in airlift bioreactor by using seawater. Hong-Wei Yen, Yu-Ting Liao, and Yi Xian Liu, Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering VOL. 118 No. 2, 2014.

3. The effects of feeding criteria on the growth of oleaginous yeast - Rhodotorula glutinisina in a pilot-scale airlift bioreactor. Hong-WeiYena, YiXianLiua, Jo-ShuChang. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers 49 (2015)


Fundamentals of Airlift Bioreactors

1. Bioreactors, Air_Lift Reactors (Authors: J.C. MERCHUK & M. GLUZ; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Beer-Sheva, Israel)

2. Hydraulic Model of a Gas-Lift Bioreactor with Flocculating Yeast (Authors: E. Roca, C. Ghommidh, J. M. Navarro, J. M. Lema; Bioprocess Engineering 12 [1995]

3. Influence of draft tube diameter on operation behaviour of airlift loop reactors. Weiland, P. (1984)

4. Airlift Bioreactors: Review of Recent Advances (Authors: J.C. MERCHUK, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Beer-Sheva, Israel)

5. Why use Airlift Bioreactor? (Trends in Biotechnology Volume 8, 1990, Pages 66-71)

6. Hydrodynamic and oxygen mass transfer studies in bubble columns and airlift bioreactors. Chisti, M.Y.; Fujimoto, K.; & Moo-Young, M.; Biotechnology Processes: Scale-up and Mixing (1987)

7. Airlift reactors: Characteristics, applications, and design consideration. Chisti, M.Y.; Moo-Young, M.; Chemical Engineering Communications (1987)

8. Prediction of liquid circulation velocity in airlift reactors with biological media. Chisti, M.Y.; Moo-Young, M.; Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology (1988)

9. Hydrodynamics and oxygen transfer in pneumatic bioreactor devices. Chisti, M.Y.; Moo-Young, M.; Biotechnology and Bioengineering (1988)

10. A characterization study of airlift contactors for applications to fermentations. Bello, R.A. (1981)

11. Gas holdup and overall volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient in airlift contactors. Bello, R.A.; Robinson, C.W.; Biotechnology and Bioengineering (1985)

12. Heat transfer to fermentation systems in an air-lift fermenter - Part 2: Osmotic effects on heat transfer. Blakebrough, N.; McManamey, W.J., Walker, G.; Chemical Engineering Research and Design (1983)

13. Heat transfer to fermentation systems in an air-lift fermenter - Part 3: Mechanism of heat transfer. Blakebrough, N.; McManamey, W.J., Walker, G.; Chemical Engineering Research and Design (1983)​

14. Burkert, J. F.d. M., Maldonado, R.-R., Filho, F.-M., and Rodrigues, M.-I.: Comparison of lipase production by Geotrichum candidum in stirring and airlift fermenters, J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol., 80, 61e67 (2005).


Applications of Airlift Bioreactors

1. Continuous ethanol production by a flocculating strain of Kluyveromyces marxiamis: Bioreactor performance. Bioprocess Eng. 5 (1990)

2. An airlift column bioreactor suitable for large-scale cultivation of plant cell suspensions. Smart, N.J.; Fowler, M.W. (1984)

3. Comparisons between cellulase production by Aspergillus fumigatus in agitated vessels and in an air-left fermentor. Wase, J.D.A.; McManamey, W.J.; Raymahasay, S.; Vaid, A.K. (1985)

4. Studies of mixing in a concentric tube air-lift reactor containing xantham gum by means of an improved flow follower. Fields, P.R.; Mitchell, F.R.G.; Slater, N.K.H.; Chemical Engineering Communications (1984)

5. The application of a deep shaft technology to the treatment of high-strength industrial wastewaters. Gallo, T.; Sandford, D.S. (1979)

6. Development and application of the thin channel rectangular airlift mass transfer reactor to fermentation and water-water treatment systems. Gasner, L.L.; Biotechnology and Bioengineering (1974) Fermentor design. Hatch, R.T.; Single Cell Protein, The MIT Press (1975)

7. Performance in mixing and cell mass propagation of airlift fermentor. Haung, S.Y.; Yeh, M.C.; Liou, K.T.; Abstracts: Fifth International Fermentation Symposium, Berlin (1976)

8. Penicillin production in a bubble column air lift loop reactor. Koenig, B.; Seewald, C.; Schugerl, K.; Advances in Biotechnology (1981)

9. Optimization of oxygen and substrate supply for paraffin-based fermentation in a loop reactor. Seipenbusch, R.; Birckenstaedt, J.W.; Blenke, H.; Schindler, F.; Abstracts: Fifth International Fermentation Symposium, Berlin (1976) ​

10. Prospects and problems in the large scale production of metabolites from plant cell tissue cultures. Shuler, M.L.; Pyne, J.W.; Hallsby, G.A.; Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (1984)