Computational fluid dynamics simulation improves the design and characterization of a plug-flow-type scale-down reactor for microbial cultivation processes

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/biot.202200152" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/biot.202200152</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/biot.202200152" target="_blank" >10.1002/biot.202200152</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Computational fluid dynamics simulation improves the design and characterization of a plug-flow-type scale-down reactor for microbial cultivation processes

Original language description

The scale-up of bioprocesses remains one of the major obstacles in the biotechnology industry. Scale-down bioreactors have been identified as valuable tools to investigate the heterogeneities observed in large-scale tanks at the laboratory scale. Additionally, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations can be used to gain information about fluid flow in tanks used for production. Here, we present the rational design and comprehensive characterization of a scale-down setup, in which a flexible and modular plug-flow reactor was connected to a stirred-tank bioreactor. With the help of CFD using the realizable k-ε model, the mixing time difference between a 20 and 4000 L bioreactor was evaluated and used as scale-down criterion. CFD simulations using a shear stress transport (SST) k-ω turbulence model were used to characterize the plug-flow reactor in more detail, and the model was verified using experiments. Additionally, the model was used to simulate conditions where experiments technically could not be performed due to sensor limitations. Nevertheless, verification is difficult in this case as well. This was the first time a scale-down setup was tested on high-cell-density Escherichia coli cultivations to produce industrially relevant antigen-binding fragments (Fab). Biomass yield was reduced by 11% and specific product yield was reduced by 20% during the scale-down cultivations. Additionally, the intracellular Fab fraction was increased by using the setup. The flexibility of the introduced scale-down setup in combination with CFD simulations makes it a valuable tool for investigating scale effects at the laboratory scale. More information about the large scale is still necessary to further refine the setup and to speed up bioprocess scale-up in the future. © 2022 The Authors. Biotechnology Journal published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20401 - Chemical engineering (plants, products)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biotechnology Journal

ISSN

1860-6768

e-ISSN

1860-7314

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000891200000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85142896354