title: On the role of reactive diffusion and pellet shape in the conversion of rifamycin B to rifamycin S by immobilised rifamycin oxidase.
creator: Patnaik, P R
subject: QD Chemistry
description: The steady state performance of a well-mixed continuous flow bioreactor has been analysed for the conversion of rifamycin B to rifamycin S by rifamycin oxidase immobilised inside porous pellets. Substrate inhibition kinetics, established in a previous study, have been used and a one-point collocation employed for the concentration profiles in the pellets. The effectiveness factor, h, and the fractional conversion, X, of rifamycin B for rectangular, cylindrical and spherical pellets pass through peaks as the Thiele modulus is varied. The maxima for both η and X are highest and occur at the smallest Thiele modulus for a rectangular slab whereas a sphere is at the other extreme.
publisher: SAUS
date: 1996
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://crdd.osdd.net/open/743/1/pat96%28s4%29.pdf
identifier:   Patnaik, P R  (1996) On the role of reactive diffusion and pellet shape in the conversion of rifamycin B to rifamycin S by immobilised rifamycin oxidase.  Hungarian Journal of Industrial Chemistry, 24.  pp. 193-197.      
relation: http://crdd.osdd.net/open/743/