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Hollow Fiber Bioreactors for In Vivo-like Mammalian Tissue Culture
Published on: May 26, 2016
Modelling of hollow fiber membrane bioreactor for mammalian cell cultivation using computational hydrodynamics
Natalia V Menshutina1, Elena V Guseva2, Ruslan R Safarov1
1Department of Cybernetics of Chemical Processes, Faculty of Information Technologies and Chemical Engineering, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Miusskaya Sq., 9, 125047, Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
The hollow fiber membrane bioreactor (HFMB) has been investigated for the cultivation of mammalian Chinese hamster ovary cell expansion. The experiments were carried out in Petri's dishes and in the hollow fiber membrane bioreactor having 20 fibers (S2025 from FiberCell Systems). The approach to HFMB modelling which combines the model of cell growth kinetics and hydrodynamics has been proposed. The hydrodynamic model is made using ANSYS Fluent software. The mathematical model of HFMB was developed, allowing the study of the hydrodynamics into the lumen and the extracapillary spaces, the filtration through the membrane fiber with the cell expansion on outer membrane surface. The direct nutrient medium flow variant into the extracapillary space was suggested. Based on the numerical simulations, the optimal parameters were selected for daily changes in the medium flow-rate into the lumen space. The HFMB scaling up was performed for the larger size HFMB (60 fibers).
