Reactor device
AssigneeMedicel Oy
InventorsJuha-Pekka Pitkanen, Antii Vuolanto
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Abstract
The invention relates to a reactor device (1). In order to keep the equipment costs low and to make it possible to handle a plurality of cultivations during a short time period, the device (1) comprises a channel and means (17) for delivering fluid to monitoring means (4, 5); reactor vessels (2) for containing fluid, connected to said channel via valves (3); a source for a cleaning fluid, connected to said channel via a valve (3); and a controller (7) for controlling the means (17) for delivering fluid, the monitoring means (4, 5) and the valves (3) for taking samples from selected reactor vessels (2) one by one, for delivering said samples to the monitoring means (4, 5), and for cleaning said channel by delivering cleaning fluid through said channel.
Claims9
A reactor device configured to handle microbial or unicellular liquid-phase cultivations, comprising:
- monitoring means,
- a channel and means for delivering fluid to said monitoring means via said channel,
- reactor vessels for containing fluid, connected to said channel via valves, said reactor vessels comprising at least one inlet for fluid,
- means for introducing fluid into said reactor vessels via said inlets,
- a controller for controlling the means for delivering fluid, the monitoring means and the valves for taking samples from selected reactor vessels one by one, and for delivering said samples to the monitoring means,
- a source of a cleaning fluid which is connected to said channel via a valve, and said controller is configured to control said valve for cleaning said channel by delivering cleaning fluid through said channel, and
- said monitoring means include a storage means for receiving a plurality of containers, and an actuator for moving said plurality of containers and/or an end of said channel such that samples taken from the different reactor vessels are fed from the channel into different containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.