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#Question id: 14401


Denitrifying bacteria are immobilised in gel beads and used in a stirred reactor for removal of nitrate from groundwater. At a nitrate concentration of 3 g m -3, the conversion rate is 0.011 g s-1 m-3 catalyst. The effective diffusivity of nitrate in the gel is 1.5 × 10 -9 m 2 s-1, the beads are 6 mm in diameter, and the liquid-solid mass-transfer coefficient is 10 -5 m s-1. Km for the immobilised bacteria is approximately 25 g m -3. Calculate the observable Thiele modulus with CAs = 1.9 g m -3

#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology
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