The present invention relates to a gassing unit for bubble-free introduction of a process gas into a liquid located in a reactor, wherein the gassing unit comprises at least: a first gas receiving chamber and, spaced therefrom, a second gas receiving chamber for receiving a process gas, the two gas receiving chambers being connected to one another via at least two two-dimensional, gas-conducting diffusion membranes comprising hollow fibers spaced apart from one another and at least partially fixed to one another; a receptacle for a gas supply on at least one of the gas receiving chambers; a receptacle for a shaft on at least one of the gas receiving chambers;
wherein the gassing unit for gassing the liquid in the reactor can be supplied with process gas via the gas supply receptacle, can be set into a rotational movement via the receptacle for the shaft and can form a convection flow within the reactor via the rotational movement of the gassing unit in the liquid. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for gassing a process liquid, a gas-liquid reactor comprising a gassing unit according to the invention, and the use of a gassing unit according to the invention for supplying biological cultures with process gases.

The present disclosure provides a bioreactor, which includes a tank configured to contain a mixture of animal cells and a liquid; and a first ventilation device arranged outside the tank and including a first gas distributor, the first gas distributor being configured to transmit a gas to the liquid separated from the animal cells. The bioreactor further includes a dialysis component, which is arranged outside the tank and comprises a dialysis filter. The bioreactor further includes a second ventilation device arranged in the tank and configured to transmit the gas to the mixture in the tank.

Described herein are genetically-engineered organisms comprising synthetic operons for the production of isoprenoids, carotenoids, and retinoids, optimized for use in a hydrocarbonoclastic organism, and methods for the synthesis and extraction of isoprenoids in a biofilm bioreactor comprising the genetically-engineered organisms.

A method for filtering a gas comprises passing a gas through a compartment of a filter assembly, the filter assembly comprising: an inlet opening; a first outlet opening; a casing comprising polymeric film and bounding the compartment, the compartment communicating with the inlet opening and the first outlet opening; and a first filter at least partially disposed within the compartment. The method further comprising forming a first seal across a first section of the casing at a location between the inlet opening and the first filter to form a first sub-compartment within the casing and severing the casing at a first location.

The present disclosure relates to an integrated methanol synthesis and fermentation system for the production of whole cells and biomolecules, and methods of using the same. In one embodiment, a system comprises a methanol synthesis apparatus adapted to produce unrefined methanol; a mixing apparatus adapted to receive unrefined methanol from the methanol synthesis apparatus; and a metering apparatus having at least one first input port in communication with mixing apparatus and at least one second output port in communication with a fermentation vessel.

Fluidic devices are provided and/or configured to form and support, extractable in-situ-formed hydrogels or hydrogel membranes that reside in a hydrogel chamber formed above, and in direct fluid communication with, an underlying fluidic channel, in the absence of an intervening membrane. In some example embodiments, the integrated fluidic device may include a geometrical hydrogel retention structure that provides a restoring force to the hydrogel when fluidic pressure is applied to the hydrogel from the underlying fluidic channel, or a geometrical meniscus-pinning feature that resists flow of a hydrogel precursor solution out of the hydrogel chamber, facilitating the formation of a hydrogel membrane extending over the integrated fluidic channel. The hydrogel or hydrogel membrane may be seeded with cells by delivering a cell-containing liquid to the fluidic channel, optionally while contacting the hydrogel with media provided in a media reservoir residing above the hydrogel layer.

The devices, methods and systems are described for providing controlled amounts of gas, gas pressure and vacuum to microfluidic devices the culturing of cells under flow conditions. The devices, methods, and systems contemplated here may also be used to control the environment surrounding the microfluidic devices; offer user control over experiments comprising microfluidic devices, such as the ability to directly or remotely control experiment conditions; and comprise information aggregation and transmission, such that experimental data may be collected, stored, aggregated and transmitted to users.

A bag assembly for use with a heat exchanger includes a flexible bag having of one or more sheets of polymeric material, the bag having a first end that bounds a first compartment and an opposing second end that bounds a second compartment, a support structure being disposed between the first compartment and the second compartment so that the first compartment is separated and isolated from the second compartment. A first inlet port, a first outlet port, and a first drain port are coupled with the flexible bag so as to communicate with the first compartment. A second inlet port, a second outlet port, and a second drain port are coupled with the flexible bag so as to communicate with the second compartment.

A bioreactor for growing micro-organisms in a reaction mixture including a reaction medium and micro-organisms. The bioreactor includes a first reaction chamber, a second reaction chamber and means for connecting the first reaction chamber to the second reaction chamber. The first reaction chamber has first volume for containing first number of micro-organisms, a first input for providing reaction mixture thereto, and a first output for removing excess gases therefrom. The second reaction chamber, arranged downstream from first reaction chamber, has a second volume for containing a second number of micro-organisms, a second input for providing gases thereto, and a second output for removing reaction mixture therefrom. The means for connecting is the sole input for allowing the reaction mixture to flow from the first reaction chamber to the second reaction chamber and for gases to flow from the second reaction chamber to the first reaction chamber.

This nitrogen recovery method is for causing nitrifying bacteria to decompose an ammonia component in an ammonia-containing gas, and recovering a nitrogen component contained in ammonia as an ammonia gas decomposition product, involving: supplying circulating water to a microorganism decomposition tank retaining a nitrifying bacterium carrier carrying nitrifying bacteria to maintain the carrier wet; passing ammonia-containing gas through the carrier in the wet state in an oxygen-containing atmosphere; dissolving an ammonia component in the ammonia-containing gas in the circulating water, together with an ammonia gas decomposition product produced by the nitrifying bacteria, to continue decomposing the ammonia-containing gas while the decomposition product is accumulated in the circulating water; and collecting all or a portion of the circulating water to recover the ammonia gas decomposition product, when the concentration of nitrate ion as an ammonia decomposition product in the circulating water reaches a predetermined concentration of 5000 mg/L or more.