Fermenter

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C - Chemistry, Metallurgy

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195/143, 195/67

C12M 1/08 (2006.01) C12M 3/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1263328

- 17 - ABSTRACT Fermenter A continuous fermenter vessel such as an air-lift fermenter for receiving a suspension culture of cells, the vessel comprising; means for agitating a suspension culture received in a first portion of the vessel; a second portion of the vessel defining, in use, a static settling zone, at least part of the bottom of the second portion communicating with the first portion; an inlet means for the continuous supply of culture medium to the vessel; and an outlet for the continuous withdrawal of culture supernatant from the second portion of the vessel from a point spaced above the bottom of the second portion wherein, in use, cells settling in the second portion are returned to the agitated suspension culture, and culture supernatant having a lower concentration of cells than the suspension culture is withdrawn from the second portion.

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