A batch reactor includes a first portion, a second portion, a first drainage tank, a second drainage tank, and a first flow control mechanism. The first portion includes a first chamber, a second chamber, and a third chamber in fluid communication with one another configured for a flow of at least one biomaterial therethrough. The second portion includes a first chamber and a second chamber in fluid communication with one another configured for a flow of the least one biomaterial therethrough. The first drainage chamber is in fluid communication with the first and second chambers. The second drainage chamber is in fluid communication with the third chamber of the first portion and the second chamber of the second portion. The first flow control mechanism is disposed between the third chamber of the first portion and the first chamber of the second portion.

The invention relates to an apparatus (200) for incubation of a viable biological material (2); said apparatus comprises: a housing (4) having an extension in a longitudinal direction X, in a transversal direction Y, and in a direction Z perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and the transversal direction; said housing comprising: two or more culture dish compartments (6), each being adapted to accommodate, one or more culture dishes (8) comprising a biological material (2); wherein said apparatus comprises an image capturing device (10); wherein said apparatus comprises a control unit (12) for controlling the operation thereof; wherein at least part of said image capturing device is being configured to be movable in relation to the two or more culture dish compartments (6), thereby allowing capture of images of one or more of said biological materials (2) accommodated in said one or more culture dishes (8); and wherein said apparatus comprises a FLIM unit (11) (fluorescent lifetime imaging microscope); wherein at least part of said FLIM unit (11) is being configured to be movable in relation to the two or more culture dish compartments (6), thereby allowing capture of FLIM spectra of one or more of said biological materials (2) accommodated in said one or more culture dishes (8).

An optical system for determining the concentration of a metabolic gas in a container sealed to biological contamination and enclosing a biological material. The optical system has a broadly tunable coherent infrared light source, a detection module, and a control system connected to the light source and detection module and operates the light source, to receive and analyze the data provided by said detection module, and to process the data indicative of the concentration of said metabolic gas in said sealed container.

The invention relates to a method for producing products by microbial fermentation. The method comprises first converting a feed stream containing methane to a gaseous substrate comprising CO, of the invention include converting CO H.sub.2, and CO.sub.2 using a steam reforming zone and a water gas shift zone. The gaseous substrate is then converted to products such as alcohols and/or acids byto one or more products including alcohols and/or acids by fermentation using a carboxydotrophic microorganism.

The invention relates to a novel plasma induced mutation breeding device which comprises: a sample treatment system including a sterile working compartment free of bioactive contaminant; a plasma generator; a radio frequency (RF) power module connected with the plasma generator; a cooling system for cooling the plasma generator; a detection system including a gas flow controller for controlling the gas flow which generates the plasma jet and a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the jet emitted by the plasma generator; and a control system with an operation panel and a controller for controlling the operation of the mutation breeding device, wherein the controller is connected with the RF power module, gas flow controller, temperature sensor, cooling system as well as the operation panel, respectively, and said plasma generator stably emits the plasma jet at 37±3° C. during the biological sample processing.

An algae cultivation system includes generating a translating hydraulic jump wave that travels across a gas-liquid interface of an algae cultivation fluid contained in the algae cultivation system. The translating hydraulic jump wave has Froude number greater than 1.

A transfer device includes at least one pump unit provided for a defined gas transfer between a first, closed-off space of an installation, in particular a photobioreactor installation, and a second space which is separate from the first space. The at least one pump unit is embodied as a selective oxygen pump.

An apparatus for monitoring a bioprocess parameter. The apparatus includes: a housing; a bioprocess sensor attached to an outer surface of the housing; a power supply contained within the housing; and an electronics module contained within the housing and in communication with the power supply and the sensor, where the electronics module includes a wireless communication unit.

A cellular object imaging system may include a growth platform. The growth platform may include a body having a cellular fluid suspension region, a media supply passage extending within the body to the cellular object fluid suspension region, at least one fluid pump on the body to selectively deliver media to the cellular object fluid suspension region, a waste discharge passage extending within the body from the cellular object fluid suspension region and a cellular object rotator on the body adjacent the cellular object fluid suspension region to rotate a cellular object within the cellular object fluid suspension region. The cellular object fluid suspension region permits optical imaging of the cellular object suspended in a fluid during rotation by the cellular object rotator.

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires an evaluation value for a state of cells which are cultured in each of a plurality of fluidic devices, culture environment, and information representing a disposition position of the fluidic device; and a generation unit that generates a learned model in which the evaluation value and the information representing the disposition position are received as an input and the culture environment is output, through machine learning using, as training data, the evaluation value before adjustment of the culture environment, the culture environment after the adjustment, and the information representing the disposition position, in a case where, due to the adjustment, the evaluation value becomes a first threshold value or more and an absolute value of a difference in evaluation value between the plurality of fluidic devices becomes a second threshold value or less.