Bioreactor provided with equipment with flexible walls
AssigneeSartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
InventorsUrsula Erhardt, Christoph Erhardt
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Abstract
A bioreactor comprising a reactor chamber defined by reactor walls and a reactor opening, optionally with means penetrating the reactor opening in order to supply gases and/or liquids, for taking samples, for supplying microorganisms or cells, for the introduction of measuring probes, for the addition of additives or sterilizing agents and/or for emptying the bioreactor, with means for sealing the reactor opening, wherein at least one inflatable eddy current breaker is installed in the reactor chamber.
Claims12
A bioreactor, comprising a reactor chamber with a closed bottom, a top and a reactor side wall enclosure extending from the bottom to the top, a reactor opening formed at the top of the reactor chamber, and at least one inflatable eddy current breaker installed in the reactor chamber, the inflatable eddy current breaker having two chicanes projecting in from substantially opposed positions on the side wall enclosure and extending from the top toward the bottom of the reactor chamber, the inflatable eddy current breaker further having at least one transverse connecting positions on the chicanes spaced below the top of the reactor chamber and maintaining lower parts of the chicanes in spaced relationship to one another, and wherein the reactor opening may be sealed.
A bioreactor, comprising a reactor chamber with a closed bottom, a top and a reactor side wall enclosure extending from the bottom to the top, a reactor opening formed at the top of the reactor chamber, and at least two inflatable chicanes adjacent the side wall enclosure at circumferentially spaced-apart positions in the reactor chamber, each of the inflatable chicanes projecting in from the side wall enclosure and extending from the top toward the bottom of the reactor chamber wherein the inflatable chicanes communicate with one another within the reactor chamber via at least one transverse connecting lower parts of the chicanes, the transverse keeping the chicanes against the side wall enclosure.
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