Apparent and true longitudinal concentration profiles in reciprocating plate column

Mixing and solid‐liquid mass transfer characteristics in a three phase pulsed plate column with packed bed of solids in interplate spaces—a novel aerobic immobilized cell bioreactor

“…Increase in S‐L mass transfer coefficient with increase in liquid velocity was expected, as higher liquid velocity promotes a higher degree of turbulence of liquid and makes the mass transfer liquid film around the particle, thinner. But the turbulence created by increasing the liquid velocity is negligible compared with the turbulence created by reciprocation of the plates 42–44. So there was only a marginal or no significant increase in mass transfer coefficient with liquid velocity.…”