摘要:
A container for growing anaerobic microorganisms having a cone-shaped dish and matching cone-shaped cover that define between them a prescribed volume. An overflow trough surrounds the dish, and the peripheries of the dish and cover seal together by excess agar medium carrying the organisms squeezed from the volume as the cover is applied to the dish. The colonies of organisms can be viewed either through the dish or cover because each is transparent.
摘要:
A method of obtaining mold spore material useful for inhalant allergy comprising growing a mold which includes mold spores and mycelia on a medium which supports growth of the mold. A porous barrier is provided between the medium and at least some of the mold so that a first group of the mold spores and mycelia lies on the side of the barrier remote from the medium and a second group of mycelia lies in the medium and on the other side of the barrier. After optimum growth of the mold has occurred, the barrier and the first group of mold spores and mycelia are removed from the medium and allowed to dry. Subsequently, at least some of the first group of mold spores and mycelia are removed from the barrier so that the step of removing separate the first group of mold spores and mycelia from the second group of mycelia. Following drying, the removed mold spores and mycelia are sieved to separate the mold spores from most of the mycelia.
摘要:
An apparatus for culturing and examination of fungi is configured to maintain the sterility of a culture medium and a cover slip until ready for use in accordance with a method which cultures the fungi in an environment which remains undisturbed during microscopic examination of the cultured fungi.
摘要:
An apparatus for cultivating microorganisms on a granular medium comprises a vertical cylindrical vessel with a top port for charging the seeded granular medium and a bottom port for discharging the culture. The vessel is separated, heightwise, into sections by horizontal partitions, each section being provided with a tube for letting in an aerating flow of air and a tube for letting out the flow with metabolites. Each partition is composite and made up of partially overlapping circular sectors with perforation in the form of slots.The sectors are provided with a means for shifting them so that when the medium is being charged into a section, all sectors form a solid plate, while, during discharge of the culture from the section, the sectors are shifted so that a free downward passage for the culture is provided.The sector shifting means is located under the partition, relative to the medium, and provides for shifting of the sectors in a horizontal plane. Coaxially arranged with the section is a loosening means whose rake interacts with the culture to keep it loose.
摘要:
Cultures of microorganisms can be grown in a body cavity by situating therein a nutrient on a suitable carrier while maintaining the nutrient exposed to a predetermined gaseous atmosphere, so that microorganisms which require a particular atmosphere can grow directly in the body cavity on the nutrient. After a time sufficient for culture growth the carrier with the nutrient thereon are removed from the body cavity and inspected, for example, under a microscope with suitable dyes being used to stain the growth for rendering the latter easily visible. The carrier for the nutrient may take the form of a plastic sheet material having small protuberances which are thicker than a nutrient layer carried by the plastic sheet material and which serve to maintain apart from each other surfaces of the plastic and nutrient which otherwise might engage each other to prevent exposure of the nutrient to the predetermined atmosphere. The article is preferably packaged in a container which has in its interior sufficient moisture to prevent drying of the nutrient, the interior of the container being closed off from the outer atmosphere by the sheet material which is used for the container.
摘要:
A circulating device for loose materials, especially for aerobic decomposing organic waste materials comprising a freely suspended, revolving, endless heavy link or jointed mat or conveyor structure which is guided over two upper deflecting devices arranged in spaced relationship from one another at an undercarriage, at least one of such deflecting devices being driven. The link mat is equipped at its outside surface or face with entrainment devices for the loose material, such entrainment devices being divided over its surface. The direction of rotation or revolving of the link mat occurring from the top towards the bottom at the side situated in the direction of advance of the circulation device.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process for large scale solid-state fermentation. The process comprises providing a substrate to be cultured (S1) made of plant material and/or animal material, filling vessels (S2) with the substrate using an automated filling system, sterilizing (S4) the vessels, inoculating (S5) the substrate with a microbial inoculant adapted to cause fermentation of the cultured substrate, storing (S6) the vessels in a closed state in controlled climate conditions for solid state fermentation of the cultured substrate, and harvesting (S7) the content of the vessels. Each vessel has an inner volume of 50 L or less and a smallest dimension less than or equal to 40 cm. This process is particularly adapted, with additional steps, for the production of fermented flour. In this process, upscaling is obtained by providing a high number of small bioreactors and by automation, instead of increasing the size of the reactors as generally done in the field of bioprocessing. The invention also relates to a corresponding production process.
摘要:
A system (100, 200, 400, 700) and method for growing biomass, wherein the system comprises at least one growing unit (110, 210, 410, 710) having a respective controllable environment and comprising a first area (120, 220, 420, 720) and a second area (130, 230, 430, 730). The system further comprises at least one plate-grid device (140, 240, 441, 442, 443, 500, 740) arranged within said at least one growing unit in turn comprising at least one plate (225, 325, 510) elevated from at least one grid (226, 326, 530, 631, 632, 633, 634) wherein the at least one plate and the at least one grid are independently movable from one another between the first area and the second area. Additionally, the system comprises a decontamination device (160, 260, 461, 462) arranged within the second area and configured to decontaminate, in the second area, one or more of the at least one plate and/or at least one grid of the at least one plate-grid device. Furthermore, the at least one plate and at least one grid of each at least one plate-grid device are movable independently from the at least one plate and at least one grid of the other plate grid devices between a loading position (171, 471, 771), at which the at least one plate is free to receive a growth medium for growing biomass, and a discharging position (172, 472, 772), within the first area. The system further comprises at least one transporting mechanism (150, 250, 450, 750) configured to transport grown biomass discharged from the at least one plate-grid device at the discharging position, to a third area arranged outside of the at least one growing unit.
摘要:
The invention describes a methodology for production of a secondary extra-particle fungal matrix for application as a mycological material, manufactured via a Type II actively aerated static packed-bed bioreactor. A pre-conditioned air stream is passed through a substrate of discrete elements inoculated with a filamentous fungus to form an isotropic inter-particle hyphal matrix between the discrete elements. Continued feeding of the air through the substrate of discrete elements and isotropic inter-particle hyphal matrixes develops an extra-particle hyphal matrix that extends from an isotropic inter-particle hyphal matrix in the direction of airflow into a void space within the vessel.