Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect Ratios
Cultivation of microorganisms, plants or animal cells requires liquid agitation in order to ensure oxygen and nutrient transfer and to maintain cell suspension. Many studies on animal cell damage due to mechanical agitation and sparging aeration have shown that mechanical damage of freely suspended...
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| author | F. Scargiali A. Busciglio F. Grisafi G. Micale A. Tamburini A. Brucato |
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| description | Cultivation of microorganisms, plants or animal cells requires liquid agitation in order to ensure oxygen and nutrient transfer and to maintain cell suspension. Many studies on animal cell damage due to mechanical agitation and sparging aeration have shown that mechanical damage of freely suspended animal cells is in most cases associated with bursting bubbles at the air–liquid interface (Barrett et al., 2010).
Gas bubbles are usually generated by direct air sparging aimed at supplying oxygen to the culture medium. Mechanical agitation may also introduce gas bubbles in the culture medium via vortexing entrainment from the free surface.
In this work oxygen transfer performance of an unbaffled stirred bioreactor, with various aspect ratios, is presented in view of its use as a biochemical reactor for animal cell growth. In practice oxygen mass transfer occurs through the (more or less deep) free surface vortex which takes place when agitation is started in unbaffled vessels. If this vortex is not allowed to reach impeller blades, bubble formation and subsequent bursting at the free-surface is avoided.
Experimental results show that this kind of bioreactor can provide sufficient oxygen mass transfer for animal cell growth, so resulting in a viable alternative to the more common sparged reactors. The mass- transfer performance observed with the different aspect ratio configurations is also presented and discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8cbd990f955940eda94b590fd4314ef52022-12-21T23:05:23ZengAIDIC Servizi S.r.l.Chemical Engineering Transactions2283-92162014-09-013810.3303/CET1438001Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect RatiosF. ScargialiA. BusciglioF. GrisafiG. MicaleA. TamburiniA. BrucatoCultivation of microorganisms, plants or animal cells requires liquid agitation in order to ensure oxygen and nutrient transfer and to maintain cell suspension. Many studies on animal cell damage due to mechanical agitation and sparging aeration have shown that mechanical damage of freely suspended animal cells is in most cases associated with bursting bubbles at the air–liquid interface (Barrett et al., 2010). Gas bubbles are usually generated by direct air sparging aimed at supplying oxygen to the culture medium. Mechanical agitation may also introduce gas bubbles in the culture medium via vortexing entrainment from the free surface. In this work oxygen transfer performance of an unbaffled stirred bioreactor, with various aspect ratios, is presented in view of its use as a biochemical reactor for animal cell growth. In practice oxygen mass transfer occurs through the (more or less deep) free surface vortex which takes place when agitation is started in unbaffled vessels. If this vortex is not allowed to reach impeller blades, bubble formation and subsequent bursting at the free-surface is avoided. Experimental results show that this kind of bioreactor can provide sufficient oxygen mass transfer for animal cell growth, so resulting in a viable alternative to the more common sparged reactors. The mass- transfer performance observed with the different aspect ratio configurations is also presented and discussed.https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/5606 |
| spellingShingle | F. Scargiali A. Busciglio F. Grisafi G. Micale A. Tamburini A. Brucato Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect Ratios Chemical Engineering Transactions |
| title | Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect Ratios |
| title_full | Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect Ratios |
| title_fullStr | Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect Ratios |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect Ratios |
| title_short | Oxygen Transfer Performances of Unbaffled Bio_Reactors with Various Aspect Ratios |
| title_sort | oxygen transfer performances of unbaffled bio reactors with various aspect ratios |
| url | https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/5606 |
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