ABEC Presents: Advances in Single-Use Microbial Fermentation:

Microbial fermentation presents significant challenges when implementing in single-use systems.  The required mass transfer rates are an order of magnitude higher than mammalian cell culture, and a substantial amount of metabolic and mechanical agitation heat is generated.  This has limited the performance and scale of single-use fermenters.  ABEC has overcome these challenges leveraging extensive experience with stainless steel fermenters to enable state-of-the-art fermenter performance in single-use fermenters up to 1,000L scale.  In this session, attendees will learn about the key single-use fermenter design elements that enable high power mixing, high gas flow rates, and efficient heat removal, and how these elements result in oxygen transfer rates (OTR) of >500 mmol/L/Hr and optical densities of >100.  Growth data from microbial cultures up to 1,000L scale will also be presented.

Time: 16:20

Attention clean room technicians, manufacturing assemblers, engineers and project managers. ABEC is hiring! For an immediate interview, visit ABEC’s Career Fair.

Join the ISPE Young Professionals and ABEC bioprocess experts on October the 7 for a virtual tour of the ABEC manufacturing facilities in Fermoy Co. Cork and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. After the tour the team from ABEC will be on the line to answer your questions.