Automated liquid manufacturing system
AssigneeLife Technologies Corporation
InventorsJames M. Kubiak, Todd A. Battistoni, David W. Jayme
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for continuously preparing a medium formulation mixes a diluent with a plurality of chemically incompatible concentrate solutions in such a manner that none of the ingredients of the concentrate solutions chemically react in an adverse manner. The method utilizes a static mixing chamber to add the concentrate solutions to the diluent stream sufficiently in advance of one another so that adverse chemical reactions do not occur. The method also adjusts a pH level of the diluent prior to adding any of the concentrate solutions to the diluent.
Claims28
A system for continuously preparing medium from concentrated solutions comprising:
- a diluent system that provides a diluent;
- a concentrate system that provides a plurality of chemically incompatible concentrate solutions;
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- a medium mixing system that receives said diluent, that creates a turbulent diluent stream from said diluent, and that adds said plurality of concentrate solutions to said turbulent diluent stream in such a manner so that none of the ingredients of said plurality of concentrate solutions adversely chemically react with each other.
A system for continuously mixing aqueous solutions, comprising:
- means for providing a flow controlled turbulent diluent stream;
- means for adding a plurality of chemically incompatible concentrate solutions to said turbulent diluent stream in such a manner that none of the ingredients of the concentrate solutions adversely chemically react with each other;
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- means for forming a diluted mixture of said concentrate solutions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.