DESIGN PARAMETERS OF BUBBLE-COLUMN REACTORS WITH AND WITHOUT SOLID SUSPENSIONS

Bubble columns with and without solid suspensions have been used widel y as chemical reactors and bioreactors. This paper summarizes research on the design parameters of bubble columns with and without solid sus pensions, and introduces new trends in research activities such as app lications of computational fluid dynamics and of newly developed exper imental techniques to bubble columns, and research on high pressure bu bble columns.