The ability to culture hematopoietic cells in readily characterizable and scalable stirred systems, combined with the capability to utilize serum-free medium, will aid the development of clinically attractive bioreactor systems for transplantation therapies. We thus examined the proliferation and differentiation characteristics of peripheral blood (PB) mononuclear cells (MNC), cord blood (CB) M...

Hydrogen may be considered a potential fuel for the future since it is carbon-free and oxidized to water as a combustion product. Bioconversion of synthesis gas (syngas) to hydrogen was demonstrated in continuous stirred tank bioreactor (CSTBR) utilizing acetate as a carbon source. An anaerobic photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodospirillum rubrum catalyzed water-gas shift reaction which was applied ...

The transition from traditional culture methods towards bioreactor based bioprocessing to produce cells in commercially viable quantities for cell therapy applications requires the development of robust methods to ensure the quality of the cells produced. Standard methods for measuring cell quality parameters such as viability provide only limited information making process monitoring and optim...

Conventional stirred-tank bioreactor (STR) designs are optimised for cultures of bacteria but not fungal cultures; therefore, a new Air-L-Shaped Bioreactor (ALSB) was fabricated. The ALSB designed to eliminate the wall growth and clumping mycelium in STRs. Ganoderma lucidum used as model its biomass exopolysaccharide (EPS) production were maximised by optimising agitation rate, glucose concentr...

In the present work, a two-stage biohydrometallurgical process for copper extraction from waste PCBs is developed. The main goal of this study to check whether separate chemical leaching with ferric iron regeneration agent by bacterial oxidation ferrous an efficient route recovery PCBs. To test proposal, large pieces were retained in stirred tank reactor (STR) contact liquor circulating at high...

Hemicellulosic biomass from olive-tree pruning (OTPB) was used as a raw material in order to produce hemicellulosic hydrolysate be fermented with the non-traditional yeast Candida guilliermondii FTI 20037 obtain ethanol and xylitol. The main objectives of this research were study most relevant kinetic parameters involved bioconversion process correlation between stirred-tank bioreactor agitated...