1. New Analytical Expressions of Concentrations in Packed Bed Immobilized-Cell Electrochemical Photobioreactor.
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Jeyabarathi, Ponraj, Abukhaled, Marwan, Kannan, Murugesan, Rajendran, Lakshmanan, and Lyons, Michael E. G.
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TAYLOR'S series ,ONE-dimensional flow ,NONLINEAR differential equations ,TWO-phase flow ,NONLINEAR equations ,CELL culture - Abstract
An electrochemical photobioreactor with a packed bed containing transparent gel granules and immobilized photosynthetic bacterial cells is shown with a one-dimensional two-phase flow and transport model. We consider the biological/chemical events in the electrochemical photobioreactor, the intrinsically connected two-phase flow and mass transport, and other factors. This model is based on a system of nonlinear equations. This paper applies Akbari-Ganji's and Taylor series methods to find analytical solutions to nonlinear differential equations that arise in an immobilized-cell electrochemical photobioreactor. Approximate analytical expressions of the concentration of glucose and hydrogen are obtained in liquid and gas phases for different parameter values. Numerical simulations are presented to validate the theoretical investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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