RESEARCH ARTICLE
Evaluation of Fixed-Bed Cultures with Immobilized Lactococcus Lactis ssp. Lactis on Different Scales
Rebecca Faschian†, Ilyas Eren†, Steven Minden†, Ralf Pörtner*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
First Page: 16
Last Page: 25
Publisher ID: TOBIOTJ-11-16
DOI: 10.2174/1874070701711010016
Article History:
Received Date: 12/12/2016Revision Received Date: 02/02/2017
Acceptance Date: 06/03/2017
Electronic publication date: 28/04/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Fixed-bed processes, where cells are immobilized within macroporous carriers, are a promising alternative to processes with suspended cells. A scale-up concept is presented in order to evaluate the performance as part of process design of fixed-bed processes. Therefore, Lactococcus lactis cultivation in chemostat and batch mode was compared to fixed bed cultures on three different scales, the smallest being the downscaled Multiferm with 10 mL fixed bed units, the second a 100 mL fixed-bed reactor and the third a pilot scale reactor with 1 L fixed bed volume. As expected, the volume specific lactate productivity of all cultivations was dependent on dilution rate. In suspension chemostat culture a maximum of 2.3 g·L-1·h-1 was reached. Due to cell retention in the fixed-beds, productivity increased up to 8.29 g·L-1·h-1 at a dilution rate of D = 1.16 h-1 (corresponding to 2.4·µmax) on pilot scale. For all fixed bed cultures a common spline was obtained indicating a good scale-up performance.
