Characterization and application of a miniature 10 mL stirred-tank bioreactor, showing scale-down equivalence with a conventional 7 L reactor

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 681-688

  Betts, Jonathan I ^a   Doig, Steven D ^a   Baganz, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DNA; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; FERMENTATION; MICROORGANISMS; OXYGEN;

PLASMID; POWER INPUT; TANK BIOREACTORS;

BIOREACTORS;

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID;

BIOREACTORS; DNA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; KINETICS; PLASMIDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745039195     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp050369y     Document Type: Article

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