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4. Strategies for Choosing a
Bioreactor
Microorganism species
Growth and oxygen requirements
Shear and rheology effects
Cleaning and Sterility
Light
Foam
Heating and cooling
Materials of construction
5. Stirred Tank Bioreactors
The most important type of bioreactor for
industrial production processes.
Low capital and operating costs.
Depending largely on the amount of heat to be
removed, the stirrer may be top- or bottom
driven.
Tanks are fitted with baffles, which prevent
large central vortex as well as to improve
mixing.
High agitation and aeration cause major
problems such as foaming, which may lead to
unknown contamination.
8. Bubble Column Reactor
Used in production of Baker’s yeast, beer and
vinegar.
Also used in aeration and treatment of
wastewater.
In bubble columns, the hydrodynamics and
mass transfer depend on the size of bubbles
and how they are released from the sparger.
9.
10. Airlift Bioreactor
Mixing is accomplished without any mechanical
agitation.
Used for tissue culture because the tissues are
sensitive to shear stress, thus normal mixing is
not possible.
Air is fed into the bottom of a central draught tube
through a sparger ring. The flow passes up
through the draft tube to the head space of the
bioreactor, where excess air, by-product and CO2
disengage.
In general, airlift bioreactors the following
features:
Internal loop or
External loop
12. Advantages of an Airlift
Bioreactor
Low shear, which means it can be used for
plant and animal cells.
Since there is no agitation, sterility is easily
maintained.
In a large vessel, the height of the liquid can
be as high as 60m, the pressure at the bottom
of the vessel will increase the oxygen
solubility, thus increase the mass transfer.
Extremely large vessel can be constructed.
13. Disadvantages of Airlift
Bioreactors
High capital cost with large scale vessel.
High energy cost. Although an agitator is not
required, a greater air throughput is necessary,
and the air has to be at higher pressure,
especially if large scale.
As the microorganism circulate through the
bioreactor, the conditions change, and it is
impossible to maintain consistent levels of carbon
source, nutrients and oxygen throughout the
vessel.
The separation of gas from the liquid is not very
efficient when foam is present.
In the design of an airlift bioreactor, these
disadvantages must be minimised.
14.
15. Immobilized Cell Bioreactor
(ICB)
Enzymes, viable cells, plant cells and animal cells
can be immobilized.
It can be divided into stirred tank reactors, fixed bed
reactors, fluidized bed reactors. These reactors can
also be combined or modified.
The choice of reactor design for an ICB would
depend on:
Mass transfer requirements, eg. Oxygen supply and gas
removal
Particle characteristics, eg. In stirred tank reactor,
damage to the particle is greater than in packed bed
reactor.
Kinetic considerations
16. Methods of Immobilization
Methods of
Immobilization
Active
Immobilization
Cross-
linking
Covalent
bonding
Entrapment
in Gels
Passive
Immobilization
Adsorption Colonization
17. Advantages of immobilized Cell
Bioreactor
Application to multi-step enzyme reaction may be
possible.
The enzyme activity yield on immobilization is high.
Operational stability is generally high.
Operations for enzyme extraction and/or purification
are unnecessary.
High cell densities can be employed.
Cell densities and enzyme activities can be expected
to be maintained over a long period of operation.
Products can be easily removed from immobilized
cells
Immobilized cells appear to be less susceptible to
microbial contamination.
18. Disadvantages of Immobilized Cell
Reactor
The cells may contain numerous catalytically
active enzymes, which may catalyze unwanted
side reactions.
The cell membrane itself may serve as a
diffusion barrier, thus reducing productivity.
Contamination by cells leaking out from
carriers may occur.
The physiological state of the microorganism
cannot be controlled.
21. Membrane Reactors
A membrane reactor is a flow reactor within which
membranes are used to separate cells or enzymes from the
feed or product streams.
Usually a continuous system.
Products may also be removed continuously, but in some
applications they must be harvested intermittently or at the
end of the run.
Polymeric microfiltration (0.1 – 5 μm) or ultrafiltration (20 –
1000 Å) membranes are most commonly used.
Membranes are obtained in hollow-fiber or flatsheet form.
Application in enzymatic reaction, production of primary and
secondary metabolites by microorganisms and plant cells,
generation of antibodies by mammalian cells.
22. Advantages of Membrane
Reactors
A consequence of the retention of cells or
enzymes within the reactors. This allows the
reactors to be continuously perfused without
worrying about washout.
Membrane also provide an in-situ separation
of the cells or enzymes from the product.
Compared to immobilization technique, no
chemical agents or harsh conditions are
employed.
23. Challenges in Membrane
Reactors
Cells and enzymes entrapped within
membrane reactors are subject to diffusion
and convection that can render their
distribution heterogeneous.
An uneven flow distribution among the various
channels in a membrane reactor can have
significant effect.
24. Photobioreactors
Designed for applications such as wastewater
treatment, water quality management,
remediation of contaminated soil.
Organisms used: green and blue-green
(bacteria) algae, photoautotrophs,
photoheterotrophs
Culture systems utilizing ponds or rectangular
tanks with limited mixing.
Deep channeled culture systems with a closed
circulating loop and better mixing.