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The Use of Drip Flow and Rotating Disk Reactors for Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Analysis
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2010
Protocols for utilizing open system flow biofilms with drip flow reactors and rotating disk reactors are presented in detail.
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Single and Two-phase Flow in a Packed Bed Reactor
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2023
Source: Kerry M. Dooley and Michael G. Benton, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA The goal of this experiment is to determine the magnitude of maldistribution in typical packed bed reactors in both single phase and two-phase (gas-liquid) flow and evaluate the effects of this maldistribution on pressure drop. The concepts of residence time distribution and dispersion are introduced through the use of tracers, and these concepts are related to physical...
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Production and Measurement of Organic Particulate Matter in a Flow Tube Reactor
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2018
This paper describes the operation procedure for the flow tube reactor and related data collection. It shows the protocols for setting the experiments, recording data and generating the number-diameter distribution as well as the particle mass information, which gives useful information about chemical and physical properties of the organic aerosols.
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Chemical Gardens as Flow-through Reactors Simulating Natural Hydrothermal Systems
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2015
We describe chemical garden formation via injection experiments that allow for laboratory simulations of natural chemical garden systems that form at submarine hydrothermal vents.
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Catalytic Reactor: Hydrogenation of Ethylene
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2023
Source: Kerry M. Dooley and Michael G. Benton, Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA The hydrogenation of ethylene (C2H4) to ethane (C2H6) has often been studied as a model reduction reaction in characterizing new metal catalysts.1-2 While supported nickel is not the most active metal catalyst for this reaction, it is active enough that reaction can take place at < 200°C. The reaction typically involves adsorbed, dissociated hydrogen (H2) reacting...
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Gravity-driven delivery creates a thin liquid film that is continuously renewed as medium moves along inclined channels. Because the flow produces relatively low shear stress, attached microorganisms can remain on the solid surface while receiving nutrients under fluid-exposed conditions. This combination helps researchers examine how surface growth and community structure develop without the fully static environment of a culture.
After attachment, microorganisms produce an extracellular matrix that supports development of structured communities on the surface. In a Drip Flow Reactor, the ongoing liquid film supplies a continuously renewed fluid environment while the matrix-associated community remains surface localized. This makes the system useful for examining biofilm organization as a process linked to infection, rather than treating microbial cells only as freely suspended organisms.
The reactor adds controlled liquid movement and relatively low shear to the experimental setting, whereas a static culture does not reproduce that flow condition. This distinction matters when investigators want to study microbial communities on surfaces exposed to fluid, including biofilm behavior, antimicrobial activity, host-microbe interactions, and immune responses relevant to infection.
Researchers introduce a nutrient medium through the reactor inlet, allow it to drip by gravity along inclined channels, and expose the solid surface to the resulting film. Microorganisms can then attach and develop communities under controlled flow. The setup supports examination of growth and responses during fluid exposure, including changes associated with biofilm formation.
The device can support antimicrobial studies by allowing treatments to be evaluated against microorganisms growing as surface-associated communities rather than only in suspension. Because the biofilm develops on a solid surface under a renewed liquid film, investigators can examine antimicrobial activity in a setting that preserves important features of fluid-exposed microbial growth.
In immunology and infection research, the reactor provides a way to examine how host-microbe interactions and immune responses relate to biofilms developing on fluid-exposed surfaces. Its controlled flow environment connects microbial community formation with conditions that better represent fluid-exposed tissues than static cultures, helping frame infection studies around both the organism and its surface-associated community.