Shell of Planet Earth – Global Batch Bioreactor.

0480386 - ÚCHP 2018 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Hanika, Jiří - Šolcová, Olga - Kaštánek, P.
Shell of Planet Earth – Global Batch Bioreactor.
Chemical Engineering & Technology. Roč. 40, č. 11 (2017), s. 1959-1965. ISSN 0930-7516. E-ISSN 1521-4125
R&D Projects: GA TA ČR TE01020080
Institutional support: RVO:67985858
Keywords : critical raw materials * global batch bioreactor * planet earth
OECD category: Chemical process engineering
Impact factor: 1.588, year: 2017

Our planet Earth, precisely speaking its surface shell, might be considered as a huge multiphase batch biochemical reactor heated by the Sun, whose energy is a unique resource. The Sun ensures our earthly life unconditionally, moreover, it compensates the heat losses of land, water, and ice by radiation emitted from the Earth surface to its surrounding space at night. It is evident that in this macroreactor the complex transport phenomena occur in many phases, involving mass, heat, and momentum. Obviously, such a responsive batch system is strongly limited by raw resources of all elements including carbon materials necessary for a good living standard and utilized both in the energy production and for the main industrial chemical processes.
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