Rates of glucose oxidation with a column reactor utilizing a magnetic field.

Rates of glucose oxidation were measured with the use of a fluidized-bed column placed in a magnetic field and magnetite-containing beads of immobilized glucose oxidase and catalase. Its performance was predicted from the volumetric coefficient for liquid-phase mass transfer and the kinetic constants for glucose oxidation. Effusion of beads was negligible under the operating conditions employed.