摘要:
Methods of inducing nucleation of a material is provided. The disclosed methods comprise the steps of bringing the material to a temperature near or below a phase transition temperature and altering the pressure to induce nucleation of the material. The disclosed methods are useful in freeze-drying processes, particularly pharmaceutical freeze-drying processes.
摘要:
Disclosed are methods of reducing incidence of disorders such as Woody Breast in poultry, by incubating pre-hatching eggs in an atmosphere enriched in carbon dioxide, preferably combined with administration to the post-hatching birds of water comprising oxygen-containing nanobubbles.
摘要:
Administration to chickens or other poultry of water containing nanobubbles that contain oxygen reduces the incidence of woody breast disorder in the chicken or other poultry.
摘要:
A bioreactor with an upward flowing impeller system for controlling a mammalian cell culture process is provided. The disclosed system enables control of the cell culture process by controlling the level of dissolved carbon dioxide in the cell culture media and prevent increases in the osmolality level is achieved by enhanced stripping of carbon dioxide via surface gas exchange with little or no damage to the mammalian cells. The use of an upward flow impeller combined with vertical baffles converts the swirling motions of the cell culture media into a largely vertical flow and promotes the removal of dissolved carbon dioxide via surface gas exchange with a sweep gas flowing over the top surface of the cell culture media within the bioreactor vessel.
摘要:
A freeze-dryer and method of controlling the same is provided. The disclosed freeze-dryer includes a chamber adapted to hold material or product to be freeze-dried; one or more depressurization orifices; a gas pressurization circuit having a source of gas to pressurize the chamber to a prescribed pressure; a depressurization circuit coupled to the chamber via the one or more orifices and having a depressurizing control valve; and a control unit adapted to pressurize the chamber with the source of gas and actuate the depressurizing control valve to depressurize the chamber upon command. The ratio of total depressurization orifice area to the chamber volume is preferably between about 6×10−2 and about 4×10−4 m2/m3.
摘要翻译:提供了一种冷冻干燥机及其控制方法。 所公开的冷冻干燥机包括适于容纳要冷冻干燥的材料或产品的室; 一个或多个减压孔; 气体加压回路,其具有用于将所述腔室加压到规定压力的气体源; 减压回路,经由所述一个或多个孔连接到所述腔室并具有减压控制阀; 以及控制单元,其适于利用所述气体源对所述室加压并且致动所述减压控制阀以在命令时对所述室进行减压。 总减压孔面积与室容积的比优选在约6×10 -2至约4×10 -4 m 2 / m 3之间。
摘要:
Incubating eggs of chicken or other poultry in an atmosphere in which the CO2 concentration is elevated at controlled levels, enhances the health and survivability of the chicks and, in the case of chickens, reduces the tendency of chicks hatched from the eggs thus treated to disorders such as Woody Breast.
摘要:
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for forming frozen foam products, including edible products, using air or gases or gas mixtures having an average molecular weight larger than that of air, wherein the products contain bubbles having a reduced average size preferably in a narrow size range.
摘要:
A system and method for controlling a mammalian cell culture process are provided. Such control of the cell culture process involves control of the level of dissolved carbon dioxide in the cell culture media and the resulting ability to prevent increases in the osmolality level is achieved by enhanced stripping of carbon dioxide with little or no damage to the mammalian cells. The disclosed methods and systems of dissolved carbon dioxide stripping include enhanced surface gas exchange mechanisms within the bioreactor vessel through the use of an upward flow impeller combined with vertical baffles to convert swirling motions of the liquid into a largely vertical flow.
摘要:
A freeze-dryer and method of controlling the same is provided. The disclosed freeze-dryer includes a chamber adapted to hold material or product to be freeze-dried; one or more depressurization orifices; a gas pressurization circuit having a source of gas to pressurize the chamber to a prescribed pressure; a depressurization circuit coupled to the chamber via the one or more orifices and having a depressurizing control valve; and a control unit adapted to pressurize the chamber with the source of gas and actuate the depressurizing control valve to depressurize the chamber upon command. The ratio of total depressurization orifice area to the chamber volume is preferably between about 6×10−2 and about 4×10−4 m2/m3.
摘要翻译:提供了一种冷冻干燥机及其控制方法。 所公开的冷冻干燥机包括适于容纳要冷冻干燥的材料或产品的室; 一个或多个减压孔; 气体加压回路,其具有用于将所述腔室加压到规定压力的气体源; 减压回路,经由所述一个或多个孔连接到所述腔室并具有减压控制阀; 以及控制单元,其适于利用所述气体源对所述室加压并且致动所述减压控制阀以在命令时对所述室进行减压。 总减压孔面积与室容积的比优选在约6×10 -2至约4×10 -4 m 2 / m 3之间。
摘要:
Methods for controlling the level of dissolved carbon dioxide and limiting osmolality in a mammalian cell culture process to enhance cell growth, viability and density, and increase biologic product concentration and yield are provided. Such control of the level of dissolved carbon dioxide and pH as well as the resulting ability to limit osmolality in a mammalian cell culture process is achieved by adopting alternative pH control strategies and CO2 stripping techniques during a mammalian cell culture process. Such pH control techniques and carbon dioxide stripping occur without foam and with little or no damage to the mammalian cells.