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References of LAMBDA peristaltic pumps in Biotechnology

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)

Ester Martinez-Porqueras, Simon Rittmann, Christoph Herwig, Analysis of H2 to CO2 yield and physiological key parameters of Enterobacter aerogenes and Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 38 (2013) 10245 to 10251.

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)

Ester Martinez-Porqueras, Patrick Wechselberger, Christoph Herwig, Effect of medium composition on biohydrogen production by the extreme thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 38, Issue 27, 10 September 2013, Pages 11756–11764.

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

S. Rittmann, A. Seifert, C. Herwig, Quantitative analysis of media dilution rate effects on Methanothermobacter marburgensis grown in continuous culture on H22 and CO2. Biomass and Bioenergy, Volume 36, January 2012, Pages 293–301

Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Verfahrenstechnik, Umwelttechnik und Technische Biowissenschaften, Austria. Keywords: Methanogenesis, Methanothermobacter marburgensis, Dynamic experiment, Continuous culture, Liquid dilution rate

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

F. Vallez-Chetreanu, L.G. Fraisse Ferreira, R. Rabe, U. von Stockar, I.W. Marison, An on-line method for the reduction of fouling of spin-filters for animal cell perfusion cultures, Journal of Biotechnology 130 (2007) 265–273

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

Vallez-Chetreanu, Florentina. Characterization of the mechanism of action of spin-filters for animal cell perfusion cultures. PhD diss. NO 3488, ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, 2006.

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)

Stark, D., D. Zala, T. Münch, B. Sonnleitner, I. W. Marison, and U. Von Stockar, Inhibition aspects of the bioconversion of L-phenylalanine to 2-phenylethanol by Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Enzyme and Microbial Technology 32, no. 2 (2003): 212-223.

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

Juan I. Castrillo, Unai O. Ugalde, Patterns of energy metabolism and growth kinetics of Kluyveromyces marxianus in whey chemostat culture, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, November 1993, Volume 40, Issue 2-3, pp 386-393.

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 of LAMBDA lab peristaltic liquid pumps in Chemical laboratory

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

Rajabi, Maryam, Bahram Mohammadi, Alireza Asghari, Behruz Barfi, and Mahdi Behzad. Nano-alumina coated with SDS and modified with salicylaldehyde-5-sulfonate for extraction of heavy metals and their determination by anodic stripping voltammetry. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 20, no. 5 (2014): 3737-3743.

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

Elsa Lacroix, Alessandro Brovelli, Julien Maillard, Emmanuelle Rohrbach-Brandt, D.A. Barry, Christof Holliger, Use of silicate minerals for long-term pH control during reductive dechlorination of high tetrachloroethene concentrations in continuous flow-through columns, Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 482–483, 1 June 2014, Pages 23–35.

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

Jan Šíma, Pavel Hasal, Photocatalytic Degradation of Textile Dyes in aTiO2/UV System, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2013, 32, 79-84.

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

Wang, Yuheng, Manon Frutschi, Elena Suvorova, Vannapha Phrommavanh, Michael Descostes, Alfatih AA Osman, Gerhard Geipel, and Rizlan Bernier-Latmani. Mobile uranium (IV)-bearing colloids in a mining-impacted wetland. Nature communications, 4:2942, (2013).

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

Maya, C. C., Younga, L., Worsfolda, P. J., Heathb,S., Bryanb, N. D. and Keith-Roacha. The effect of EDTA on the groundwater transport of thorium through sand. Water Research, Volume 46, Issue 15, 1 October 2012, Pages 4870. Biogeochemistry Research Centre, Plymouth University, UK; The Centre for Radiochemistry Research, University of Manchester, UK; Kemakta Konsult, Stockholm, Sweden. Keywords: Complexing agent, Complexation, Colloid, Migration, Modelling, Speciation

PRECIFLOW feed pump with flexible polyethylene tube for optimal growth of algae

Legendre, A and Desmazieres, N. 2011. Device for Cultivating Algae and/or Microorganisms for Treating an Effluent, and Biological Frontage. United States Patent Application 20110318819.

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

Behruz Barfi & Maryam Rajabi & Mahboubeh Morshedi Zadeh & Mehrorang Ghaedi & Masoud Salavati-Niasari & Reza Sahrae, Extraction of ultra-traces of lead, chromium and copper using ruthenium nanoparticles loaded on activated carbon and modified with N,N-bis-(α-methylsalicylidene)-2, 2-dimethylpropane-1,3-diamine, Microchimica Acta, online: 1436-5073.

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

Silvia Scarmagnani, Zarah Walsh, Fernando Benito Lopez, Conor Slater, Mirek Macka, Brett Paull, and Dermot Diamond, Photoswitchable Stationary Phase Based on Packed Spiropyran Functionalized Silica Microbeads, e-J. Surf. Sci. Nanotech. Vol. 7 (2009) 649-652.

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

Andrew Friberg, Magnus Stahle, Olle Korsgren, Daniel Brandhorst, Human islet purification utilizing a semi-closed automated pump system, Cell Transplant, 2008;17(12):1305-13.

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

Stjernlöf, A. 2007. Portable capillary electrophoresis system with LED-absorbance photometric and LED-induced fluorescence detection.

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

Oxygen and Temperature Control during the Cultivation of Microorganisms using Substrate Feeding, Engineering in Life Sciences, 2007, Volume 7, Issue 3, pages 247–252.

“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

A Vicente, J I Castrillo, J A Teixeira, U Ugalde, On-line estimation of biomass through pH control analysis in aerobic yeast fermentation systems, Biotechnol Bioeng. 1998 May 20; 58(4):445-50.

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

CASTRILLO, I. DE MIGUEL AND U. 0. UGALDE, Proton Production and Consumption Pathways in Yeast Metabolism. A Chemostat Culture Analysis, YEAST VOL. 11: 1353-1365 (1995)

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

Legendre, A and Desmazieres, N. 2011. Device for Cultivating Algae and/or Microorganisms for Treating an Effluent, and Biological Frontage. United States Patent Application 20110318819.

Schlüsselwörter: Organohalogenid Atmung, mikrobiell reduzierende Dechlorierung, PCE, Ansäuerung, pH-Puffer, Algenkultivierung

References of LAMBDA pumps in food industry

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

Rajabi, Maryam, Behruz Barfi, Alireza Asghari, Farhood Najafi, and Reza Aran. Hybrid amine-functionalized titania/silica nanoparticles for solid-phase extraction of lead, copper, and zinc from food and water samples: kinetics and Equilibrium studies. Food Analytical Methods (2014): 1-10.

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

Zoran Jaglic, Dana Cervinkova, Elleni Michu, Martina Holasova, Petr Roubal, Hana Vlkova, Vladimir Babak, Jarmila Schlegelova, Effect of milk temperature and flow on the adherence of Staphylococcus epidermidis to stainless steel in amounts capable of biofilm formation, Dairy Sci. & Technol. (2011) 91:361–372.

Veterinary Research Institute and MILCOM a.s., Dairy Research Institute, Czech Republic

Keywords: Food safety, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Hygiene, Dairy, biofilm, adherence