文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：CFD analysis of the turbulent flow in baffled shake flasks

作者：Li, Chao[1];Xia, Jian-Ye[1];Chu, Ju[1];Wang, Yong-Hong[1];Zhuang, Ying-Ping[1];Zhang, Si-Liang[1]

机构：[1]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Coll Biotechnol, State Key Lab Bioreactor Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2013

卷号：70

起止页码：140

外文期刊名：BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

收录：;EI(收录号：20124915760072);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000314429800020)】；

基金：The authors would like to thank the National Engineering Research Center for Biotechnology (Shanghai) for providing the calculating facilities. This work is supported by the National Fund for State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, grant no. 2060204.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Shake flask; Hydrodynamics; Mass transfer; Mixing; Shear force; Power consumption

摘要：In this work, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique is used to simulate the complicated unsteady-state turbulent flow field formed in baffled flask. The baffled flask shows advantages both in mass transfer capacity and in shear formation in comparison with unbaffled flasks. Detailed investigations of power consumption, mass transfer and shear rate are carried out in baffled flasks under shaking frequencies ranging from 100 rpm to 250 rpm, and filling volumes from 50 mL to 150 mL. The results show that the specific power input and specific interface area are both greatly influenced by shaking frequency and filling volume. For the positive effect of shaking frequency on both mass transfer coefficient (K-L) and specific interface area (a), the volumetric mass transfer coefficient (k(L)a) increases greatly with shaking frequency. Results also show that filling volume has no significant effect on k(L) but negative effect on specific interface area. Shear force formed in baffled flask shows great dependent on shaking frequency, but it is insensitive to the filling volume. Based on these investigations, correlations linking these parameters are proposed. Finally, cultivations of filamentous fungus conducted in unbaffled and baffled flasks validated the simulating results. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.