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Gas Liquid Transfer and Liquid Mixing in Bioreactors


Reduced gravity is expected to modify the gas liquid transfer and the liquid phase mixing characteristics inside gas liquid contractors. The team will focus on the concept of an instrumented gas liquid contractor whose mass-transfer and liquid-mixing characteristics could be assessed in microgravity.

U.K Based researchers involved in this project

A. Mendes-Tatsis: (link to personal webpage)


Jeremy Curtis, UK Microgravity Co-ordinator
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

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