Extrel

Mass spectrometry is a powerful tool for bioreactor automation. Changes to the headspace composition provide crucial insight into cellular health and metabolic processes. This makes the fast, accurate analysis of CO₂, O₂, N₂, Ar, H₂O, and trace volatiles essential for real-time automated control of optimum manufacturing conditions. The MAX300-BIO™, process mass spectrometer, measures one component every 0.4 seconds, so the full update only takes 2-3 seconds. It has the speed necessary to monitor all of the reactors at the facility, meaning there’s no need to maintain a separate set of analyzers for each one.

In addition, the high repeatability of the mass spectrometer ensures that critical control parameters, like the respiratory quotient (RQ), can be calculated with exceptional precision using a single analyzer, rather than multiple discrete analyzers and flow meters. By sampling the effluent of the reactor, the MAX300-BIO is able to make its measurements without any physical interaction with the process, so there is no risk of contamination to the vessel.

Fast, accurate and efficient, the MAX300-BIO is backed by decades of proven performance in bioreactor process control installations all over the world.

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