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Characterizing the fluid dynamics of the inverted frustoconical shaking bioreactor

  • Likuan Zhu
  • , Xueting Zhang
  • , Kai Cheng
  • , Zhonghua Lv
  • , Lei Zhang
  • , Qingyong Meng
  • , Shujie Yuan
  • , Boyan Song
  • , Zhenlong Wang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Pharmaceutical research center of Harbin Bioengineering Corporation

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Abstract

The authors conducted a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to calculate the flow field in the inverted frustoconical shaking bioreactor with 5 L working volume (IFSB-5L). The CFD models were established for the IFSB-5L at different operating conditions (different shaking speeds and filling volumes) and validated by comparison of the liquid height distribution in the agitated IFSB-5L. The “out of phase” operating conditions were characterized by analyzing the flow field in the IFSB-5L at different filling volumes and shaking speeds. The values of volumetric power consumption (P/VL) and volumetric mass transfer coefficient (kLa) were determined from simulated and experimental results, respectively. Finally, the operating condition effect on P/VL and kLa was investigated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)478-485
Number of pages8
JournalBiotechnology Progress
Volume34
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • computational fluid dynamics
  • operating condition
  • orbitally shaken bioreactor
  • out of phase

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