BioNet benchtop laboratory bioreactor system

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team May 31, 2004

The BioNet bioreactor system offers complete benchtop laboratory or small production standardised units for cell culture and microbial applications, in capacities from 2 litres to 20 litres

Broadley Technologies present their BioNet bioreactor system, which offers complete benchtop laboratory or small production standardised units for cell culture and microbial applications.

The autoclavable glass bioreactor vessels are available with capacities from 2 litres to 20 litres: all metal components are manufactured from 316L stainless steel, and sensors, instrumentation and delivery lines are provided.

The associated BioNet Utility Tower is available as either a single, dual, or quad unit to manage either one, two, or four bioreactors.

This Utility Tower contains all the instrumentation, pumps, motors, valves, and meters necessary to provide monitoring and control of pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, level, gas flow, and agitation for the bioreactors, in a stainless steel enclosure.

Process monitoring and control is accomplished through the use of digital communications between the BioNet Utility Tower and a remote PC based BioNet controller, up to 100 metres away.

The BioNet Controller uses the highly regarded, field-proven DeltaV control solution from Emerson Process Management, for PC based control of small to large arrays of Utility Towers.

Individual controllers can manage up to 10 Utility Towers and can be sequenced to control an entire suite of Bioreactors.

Experience has shown the Bioreactors have provided significant insight into the process development and optimisation of process yield, reducing time to market by accelerating the R and D phases.

Monitoring the environment inside a bioreactor via intelligent devices on a digitally networked system offers insight as opposed to simply providing information.

Lab personnel can interpret data and status from pH and DO sensors inside the bioreactor through the DeltaV system, and make scientific decisions based on behaviour.

"It's the difference between doing science and just doing chemistry," remarked Andrew Hayward of Broadley Technologies.

"The insight gained from digital automation significantly shortens the R and D phase of fermentation and/or cell culture process development and ultimately helps speed time to market".