This volume provides all the information needed for the design and operation of gas/liquid/solid reactors with gas-induced liquid motion, specially bubble column and air-lift reactors. It is a comprehensive reference, complied by experts in this field. Part I describes the fundamentals of fluid flow and heat and mass transfer. It includes descriptions of the various experimental techniques used to study hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer in three-phase flow. The analysis of a number of commercially important systems is considered Part I. Many of the contributions contain worked examples and particular attention is paid to important and current industrial processes. This book will be a valuable reference to those in industry associated with three-phase reactors and research workers in the industrial and academic fields of chemical and biochemical engineering.
Biography
Professor Nigam is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. In 1985-6 he was awarded the Humbolt Fellowship to work on problems related to multiphase reactors and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge from 1989-90. He has authored over 50 research in the field of chemical reaction engineering. Professor Schumpe is currently at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Prior to this, he was a research scientist at the Biochemical Engineering Department of the National Research Centre for Biotechnology in Braunschweig. His particular research interest is multiphase reaction engineering, and he has authored over 80 papers in this field.
