Fermenter agitators for bioreactors

Fermenter agitators for bioreactors

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Fermenter agitators for bioreactors – as individual as your processes

Whether it’s medicines, vaccines, vitamins, fermented drinks or new food: Microorganisms are indispensable for producing a wide variety of products throughout the pharmaceutical and biotech industry as well as the food industry. There are diverse possible application scenarios – also, equally diverse highly-specialised fermentation processes are also required. These involve taking a large number of different parameters into account.

That’s why we provide our customers with a wide range of fermenter agitators, which are adapted to the respective process parameters by our engineers – down to the last detail. Whether it’s about the specific power input and the tip speed or determining the respective mass transfer coefficients (kLa-value): By virtue of our tailor–made technical design process, each of our fermenter agitators is “fit for purpose” and enables high yields in constant quality – thanks to a stirring volume of up to 200,000 litres, even on an industrial scale.

Fermenter Agitator for bioreactors

Images: Biotree-Fermenter, Diessel-Fermenter and Merck-Fermenter in a CFD-Simulation

PRG agitators also meet the highest standards in terms of hygienic design and provide maximum flexibility. Variants with a double-acting mechanical seal are available, and also hermetically-sealed systems with magnetic couplings up to a torque of 1,500 Nm.

Our trendsetting MRLL magnetic agitator technology with double bearing is also ideal for industrial production in large-scale fermenters of up to 25,000 litres. That way, we’re already providing our customers with solutions today, so that they are also ideally positioned for future challenges throughout the biotech and pharmaceutical industry.

Application areas

PROCESSES
dispersing, gassing, mass transfer, gentle treatment, fermentation (cell culture, bacterial fermentation)
VISCOSITY RANGE
1 mPas to 2,500 mPas
PIPE VOLUME
1 bis 200,000 l
APPLICATION AREAS
biotechnology
SUPPLY SYSTEMS
TS system or steam condensate system

Special Features

  • Hygienic Design
  • Hermetically sealed system through use of magnetically coupled agitators
  • Highest reliability
  • Fit-For-Purpose: technical design individually adapted to the respective process (e.g. kLa values, specific power input, peripheral speed, ...)

Technical features

MATERIALS
1.4404 and 1.4435 (other materials on request)
SURFACES
Standard Ra < 0.4 µm electropolished (other surfaces possible) SEALING SYSTEM
Hermetically sealed (aseptic flange connection, weld-in flange); aseptic, double-acting mechanical seal (supply of steam condensate)
OTHER
Design variants with double-acting mechanical seal, magnetic agitators
with single bearing, magnetic agitators with double bearing for large-scale
fermenters, CIP and SIP cleaning