Hollow fiber screening tool, system, and method
AssigneeRepligen Corporation
InventorsJames Peyser, Michael Bransby, Philip Yuen
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Abstract
A filter screening tool, system, and method allowing high throughput screening of filters (such as hollow fiber filters), such as for use in bioprocessing workflows. Feed material may be fed through different filter modules to assess, measure, analyze, determine, evaluate, teste, compare, screen, etc., properties or characteristics, etc., of filters within the filter modules. Each filter module may house a different type (e.g., material or configuration) of filter so that different filters may be compared and screened, such as for a selected use.
Claims12
A screening tool for screening a plurality of different filters, said screening tool comprising:
- a plurality of filter modules, each of said plurality of filter modules having an inlet, an outlet, and a permeate disposed between the inlet and the outlet, the plurality of filter modules each further including a hollow fiber filter having a characteristic that is different from a characteristic of a hollow fiber filter of another one of the plurality of filter modules;
- a screening tool inlet comprising a single inlet for receiving fluid therethrough, and a reducer portion, the reducer portion including a plate portion having a plurality of fittings coupled thereto, each of said plurality of fittings configured to directly engage the inlet of a separate one of said plurality of filter modules such that feed material flows directly from said single inlet to a respective inlet of each of the plurality of filter modules in parallel flow paths.
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