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ArticleBioprocess and biosystems engineering2022

Control of parallelized bioreactors I: dynamic scheduling software for efficient bioprocess management in high-throughput systems.

Lukas Bromig, Nikolas von den Eichen, Dirk Weuster-Botz

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Article in Bioprocess and biosystems engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Lukas BromigChair of Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748, Garching, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3911-4622
Nikolas von den EichenChair of Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748, Garching, Germany.
Dirk Weuster-BotzChair of Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85748, Garching, Germany. dirk.weuster-botz@tum.de.

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Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 031B0463B
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The shift towards high-throughput technologies and automation in research and development in industrial biotechnology is highlighting the need for increased automation competence and specialized software solutions. Within bioprocess development, the trends towards miniaturization and parallelization of bioreactor systems rely on full automation and digital process control. Thus, mL-scale, parallel bioreactor systems require integration into liquid handling stations to perform a range of tasks stretching from substrate addition to automated sampling and sample analysis. To orchestrate these tasks, the authors propose a scheduling software to fully leverage the advantages of a state-of-the-art liquid handling station (LHS) and to enable improved process control and resource allocation. Fixed sequential order execution, the norm in LHS software, results in imperfect timing of essential operations like feeding or Ph control and execution intervals thereof, that are unknown a priori. However, the duration and control of, e.g., the feeding task and their frequency are of great importance for bioprocess control and the design of experiments. Hence, a software solution is presented that allows the orchestration of the respective operations through dynamic scheduling by external LHS control. With the proposed scheduling software, it is possible to define a dynamic process control strategy based on data-driven real-time prioritization and transparent, user-defined constraints. Drivers for a commercial 48 parallel bioreactor system and the related sensor equipment were developed using the SiLA 2 standard greatly simplifying the integration effort. Furthermore, this paper describes the experimental hardware and software setup required for the application use case presented in the second part.

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BioreactorsBiotechnologyAutomationSoftwareAutomationDevice integrationDynamic schedulingHigh-throughput systemsParallel bioreactors

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