Pilot Plant

Fermentation Suite - up to 100L capacity with steam in place and clean in place facilities; 10L system and a 2L quad fermentation unit. Can be set up for microbial cell culture but also has microspargers and marine type impellers for conversion to animal cell culture. All the fermenters have pH, pO2, turbidity and off gas analysis which feeds back to a MFCS data handling unit. For downstream processing there is Centrifuge 50L/hr (11,750 rpm) and a Millipore TFF unit for concentrating down product depending on the process.

BIOSTAT Cultibag RM 20/50 - This is a wave technology/disposable bag system for animal cell culture, up to 20L capacity currently, 50L possible with additional equipment.

Pilot Plant: Solid Formulations - 5 vessels ranging from 250Lto 500L; training instrumentation skid; centrally controlled by a PLC with SCADA interface for the user.

Other equipment in the Pilot Plant includes - Millipore K-Prime unit for larger scale chromatography projects; Bottling line with 500ml fill capacity fed from the main vessels in the lab; Pasteurising Unit.