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References of peristaltic pumps in Biotechnology
Here, you will find the relevant references in the field of Biotechnology as acid pump, base pump, feed pump and harvest pump which are mentioned in the scientific publications:
Immobilization of E. coli in Chitin beads using PRECIFLOW pump
Lavallaz, Grégoire de, Dr Crelier Simon. Purification de GFP avec et sans marqueur d'affinité. PhD diss., HES-SO Valais, 2010. HES-SO Valais, Sion. Keywords: Fluorescent proteins; Separation and purification of proteins and peptides
Chemostat, Turbidostat or Perfusion: References for feed pumps and harvest pumps
Feed, loop, bleed and harvest peristaltic pumps PRECIFLOW for continuous cultivation of extreme halophiles in customized pilot scale bioreactor
Mahler, Nicole, Sebastian Tschirren, Stefan Pflügl, and Christoph Herwig. "Optimized bioreactor setup for scale-up studies of extreme halophilic cultures." Biochemical Engineering Journal 130 (2018): 39-46.
TU Wien, Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Austria; Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH, Austria.
Keywords: Continuous bioprocessing; Bubble column; Cell retention; Halophiles; Salt recycling; Haloferax mediterranei
Turbidostat composed of two PRECIFLOW peristaltic pumps with RS-232 interface for automated protein production in Escherichia coli cultures
Milias-Argeitis, Andreas, Marc Rullan, Stephanie K. Aoki, Peter Buchmann, and Mustafa Khammash. "Automated optogenetic feedback control for precise and robust regulation of gene expression and cell growth." Nature Communications 7 (2016).
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Keywords: Expression system; Industrial microbiology; Optogenetics; superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP);
Inflow of M. marburgensis chemostat culture DoE screening was controlled gravimetrically by designated PRECIFLOW pump set-point
Bernacchi, Sébastien, Simon Rittmann, Arne H. Seifert, Alexander Krajete, and Christoph Herwig, Experimental methods for screening parameters influencing the growth to product yield (Y (x/CH4)) of a biological methane production (BMP) process performed with Methanothermobacter marburgensis, AIMS Bioengineering 1, no. 2 (2014): 72-86.
Vienna University of Technology and Krajete GmbH, Austria
Keywords: Design of Experiments; chemostat; dynamic experiments; bioprocess quantification; carbon balance, biological methanogenesis, bioCH4
Feed flow rate was kept constant by controlling the speed of the PRECIFLOW peristaltic pump in continuous culture of Methanothermobacter marburgensis
A.H. Seifert, S. Rittmann, C. Herwig, Analysis of process related factors to increase volumetric productivity and quty of biomethane with Methanothermobacter marburgensis, Applied Energy 132 (2014) 155–162.
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Austria.
Keywords: Archaea, Biological methanogenesis, Continuous culture, Gas/liquid mass transfer, CO2, H2, CH4, quantification
Digital PRECIFLOW as feed pump, bleed pump and cell-free harvest pump to maximize the productivity of extreme halophilic archaeon in a bioreactor equipped with an external cell retention system
Bettina Lorantfy, Paul Ruschitzka, Christoph Herwig, Investigation of physiological limits and conditions for robust bioprocessing of an extreme halophilic archaeon using external cell retention system, Biochemical Engineering Journal 90 (2014) 140–148.
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Austria.
Keywords: Halophilic Archaea, Microfiltration for cell retention, Integrated processing, Bioprocess design, Bioprocess monitoring, Ultrafiltration
Feed pump: In a continuous mode of culture, medium was fed by PRECIFLOW peristaltic pump operated on controlled set-points for designated dilution rates (D)
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Austria.
Keywords: Biohydrogen, Biofuel, batch, repetitive batch, Chemostat culture, anaerobic, Glucose, Xylose, Hydrogen productivity, Hydrogen to carbon dioxide yield, Hydrogen to substrate yield, volumetric hydrogen evolution rate (HER), specific hydrogen evolution rate (qH2)Feed flow rate kept constant by controlling PRECIFLOW pump speed to achieve a medium dilution rae (D) of 0.05 per hour (h-1) in anaerobic bioreactor
A.H. Seifert, S. Rittmann, S. Bernacchi, C. Herwig, Method for assessing the impact of emission gasses on physiology and productivity in biological methanogenesis, Bioresource Technology, Volume 136, May 2013, Pages 747–751.
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Research Area Biochemical Engineering, Austria.
Keywords: Biomethane production, Industrial and biogenic waste gas, Biological methanogenesis, Bioreactor, Thermophilic culture, Methanothermobacter marburgensis, fermentation, anaerobic
Continuous controlled inflow of nutrient medium fed to the bioreactor by PRECIFLOW pump to obtain the desired dilution rate (D)
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Research Area Biochemical Engineering, Austria
Keywords: Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus, Defined medium, Complex medium, Xylose, Double nutrient limitation, Hydrogen productivity, batch mode
Feed pump PRECIFLOW for designated medium dilution rates of Methanothermobacter marburgensis grown in continuous cultures
Feed and harvest pump in perfusion with spin filter: Medium was fed and permeate was withdrawn continuously using two PRECIFLOW peristaltic pumps in an animal cell perfusion culture experiment
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Switzerland and Dublin City University, School of Biotechnology, Ireland
Keywords: Animal cell; Perfusion culture; Spin-filter; Fouling; Vibration; Piezo-electric
Feed and harvest PRECIFLOW peristaltic pumps in perfusion with spin-filter to study the animal cell retention
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Keywords: Perfusion culture, CHO animal cell, separation, spin–filter, retention, fouling, response surface methodology, filter vibration, piezoelectric
Feed pump PRECIFLOW in fed-batch and continuous cultures of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to maintain a constant dilution rate (D)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Givaudan Dübendorf Ltd. and Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Keywords: 2-Phenylethanol; l-Phenylalanine; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Inhibition kinetics; Metabolic uncoupling
pH was maintained at 3.5 (±0.01) by PRECIFLOW peristaltic pump in whey chemostat culture
Unit of Biochemistry, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Keywords: Biomass, whey, chemostat culture, Kluyveromyces marxianus, aerobic
Fed-batch: References for the LAMBDA feed pumps
PRECIFLOW feed pump for the production of 2-phenylethanol (PEA) by in situ product removal (ISPR) method
D. Stark, H. Kornmann, T. Munch, B. Sonnleitner, I. W. Marison, U. von Stockar, Novel Type of In Situ Extraction: Use of Solvent Containing Microcapsules for the Bioconversion of 2-Phenylethanol from L-Phenylalanine by Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Biotechnol Bioeng. 2003 Aug 20; 83(4):376-85.
Laboratory of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland.
Keywords: in-situ product recovery, microencapsulation of solvent, 2-phenylethanol, extractive fermentation, mass transfer, fermenter, fed-batch culture
Concentrated nutrient solutions was fed by LAMBDA Peristaltic Pump for the production of Erythromycin from the strain Saccharopolyspora erythraea in fed-batch
Potvin, Jean; Peringer, Paul: Ammonium regulation in Saccharopolyspora erythraea Part II Regulatory effects under different nutritional conditions. Biotechnology Letters. 1994, 16(1): 69-74.
Zeneca Bio Products, Canada.
Keywords: erythromycin, Saccharopolyspora erythraea, antibiotic, fermentation, growth rate, feeding, fed-batch
References from Chemical laboratory, Biochemistry & DSP (Downstream processing)
Here, you will find the relevant references of LAMBDA peristaltic pumps for gradient generation and other applications in Chemical laboratories, Biochemistry and DSP:
MULTIFLOW peristaltic pump used to examine the influence of eluent flow rate (1.0–6.0 mL/min) in highly selective solid phase extraction
Semnan University, Iran.
Keywords: Solid phase extraction; Nano-alumina; Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS); Sodium salicylaldehyde-5-sulfonate (SAS); Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry
The influent medium pumped using PRECIFLOW pumps to the columns containing Dehalococcoides for PCE bioremediation
Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Keywords: Organohalide respiration, Microbial reductive dechlorination, PCE, Acidification, pH buffer, Silicate minerals, bioremediation
MULTIFLOW pumped wastewater containing dissolved dye through the reactor with immobilized TiO2
Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic.
Keywords: TiO2 immobilization, decolorization, wastewater remediation, polyacrylamide (PA), UV, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), photodegradation, photoreactor
HIFLOW peristaltic pump with Tygon R-3603 tubing used to pump the porewater
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; AREVA—Business Group Mines, France; Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany.
Keywords: Pore water pump
Ensure column saturation with upward flow by MULTIFLOW pumps

PRECIFLOW feed pump with flexible polyethylene tube for optimal growth of algae
Keywords: Organohalide respiration, Microbial reductive dechlorination, PCE, Acidification, pH buffer, Silicate minerals, bioremediation
MULTIFLOW peristaltic pump to evaluate the extraction of lead(II), chromium(III) and copper(II) on a novel adsorbent
Semnan University, Iran; Yasouj University, Iran; Kashan University, Iran and Ilam University, Iran.
Keywords: Ruthenium nanoparticles loaded on activated carbon; N,N-bis-(α-methylsalicylidene)-2,2-dimethylpropane-1,3-diamine; Metals; Plasma; Food; Water
Remote control of LAMBDA peristaltic pump via RS-485 interface for sample addition at 0.5 ml/hour
National Center for Sensor Research, School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland
Keywords: Photoswitchable microspheres; Monolithic frit; Spiropyrans; Stationary phase; Metal ions
Two computer-controlled programmable HIFLOW peristaltic pumps for gradient generation in purification of isolated human islets
University Hospital, Department of Oncology, Radiology & Clinical Immunology, Uppsala, Sweden.
Keywords: Human islet isolation; Islet purification; Density gradient purification; Closed system
Injection of different samples using MULTIFLOW peristaltic pumps
Karlstad University, Sweden; Dublin City University, Ireland.
Keywords: Capillary electrophoresis (CE), LED‐absorbance photometric detector (LED‐AP), LED‐induced fluorescence (LED‐IF) detector, limit of detection (LOD)
Programmed MULTIFLOW feed pump to auto-regulate oxygen consumption and temperature
“Biotehniskais centrs”, JSC, Latvia; Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Czech Republic; Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Latvia.
Keywords: Bacteria; Bioreactors; Fermentation; Process control; substrate feeding; temperature control; oxygen consumption
pH-Stat: Acid and / or base pump for automatic pH regulation
pH-stat with acid and base PRECIFLOW pump to maintain constant pH 4 and to estimate the biomass production
Departamento de Engenharia Biológica, Universidade do Minho, Portugal and Unidad de Bioquı´mica, Departamento de Quı´mica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain.
Keywords: on-line control; pH control; growth monitoring; proton titration; yeast; aerobic fermentation; chemostat
pH-stat with PRECIFLOW pump for accurate quantitative determination of net proton production or consumption in chemostat cultures of Candida utilis
Unit of Biochemistry, Department of Applied Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Schlüsselwörter: Hefe; Stickstoff-Pathway; Chemostatkultur; Protonen-Produktion; pH-Wert; Stoffwechselmodell; Steuerung
PRECIFLOW feed pump with flexible polyethylene tube
Schlüsselwörter: Organohalogenid Atmung, mikrobiell reduzierende Dechlorierung, PCE, Ansäuerung, pH-Puffer, Algenkultivierung
References: Laboratory pumps for food industry
Here, you will find references from scientific work in which LAMBDA laboratory pumps have been used in the food industry:
PTFE column (25 mm x 7.0 mm i.d.) and MULTIFLOW peristaltic pump: Solid phase extraction of lead, copper, and zinc from different food and water samples
Semnan University, Iran and Institute for Color Science and Technology, Iran.
Keywords: Hybrid amine-functionalized titania/silica nanoparticles, Food, Water, Solid-phase extraction, Kinetic, Thermodynamic
Controlled pumping of milk into the Teflon chamber (at flow rate of 340 mL/h and 980 mL/h): Study on Staphylococcus epidermidis adherence
Veterinary Research Institute and MILCOM a.s., Dairy Research Institute, Czech Republic
Keywords: Food safety, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Hygiene, Dairy, biofilm, adherence