10.3.3 Laboratory-Scale Intermittently-Mixed
Bioreactors
The use of the mixed in forcefully-aerated bioreactors at pilot scale
is the 7.6 cm diameter spouted-bed in either continuous- or
intermittently-spouted mode (Silva and Yang (1998)).
The intermittent spouting gave better results, presumably due to the
lesser shear damage caused to the organism when compared to
continuous spouting