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BOKU Core Facilities: BioIndustrial Pilot Plant / Food & Bio Processing
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Technology Areas & scope
Fermentation and digestion
Number of units4 units
Capacity10 - 150 L
Summary of Biomass and precision fermentation
State-of-the-art bioreactors for cultivation of microorganism on different scales.
Sterile stirred tanks with high oxygen transfer for batch and fed-batch fermentation of bacteria, yeast, fungi.
Different feeding strategies are possible and can be adapted according to customer specifications.
Methanol induction possible.
Fully automated with a Siemens PCS7 GAMP5 conform process control system and ISA-88 conform Simatic® Batch program.
All bioreactors are also equiped with standard sensors, e.g. DO, pH, and a mass spectrometer for off-gas analysis for calculation of CER and OUR.
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Contact for this technology
NameMarkus Luchner
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Separation technologies
Mechanical separation
Number of units3 units
Capacity1 - 150 L/h
Summary of Centrifugation
-) Benchtop centrifuge with swing-out rotor
-) High performance centrifuge with continuous feed and discontinuous discharge (Contifuge); 22.000 g, solid volume 0.3 L
-) Disc-stack centrifuge (GEA PSC-8) with 8000 m2 equivalent clarification area; 30-200 L/h throughput
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NameMarkus Luchner
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Number of units2 units
Capacity0.05 - 2 m²
Summary of Membrane filtration
Sartoflow Advanced system:
- Small scale system (50 – 300 cm2)
- Pilot scale system (up to 2 m2 membrane area)
- Ultra-, Micro-, Dia-Filtration
Automated recording of all system data (pressure, fluxes, etc.)
Systems can be operated in different control modes
(constant flux, constant trans membrane pressure, min and max inlet pressure)
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NameMarkus Luchner
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Number of units1 units
Capacity0.5 - 15 L/h
Summary of Membrane filtration
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Membrane Filtration:
- MF
- UF
- NF
- Diafiltration
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Contact for this technology
NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Number of units2 units
Capacity0.01 - 1 kg
Summary of Particle classification and sieving
- Sieving machine
- Particle Size Analyzer
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Physicochemical separation
Number of units4 units
Capacity1 - 40 L/h
Summary of Chromatography
ÅKTA explorer 10 and 100:
for development and small-scale preparative purification
2 ÅKTA Pilot:
for pilot scale chromatography up to 40 L/h
column size 0.5 – 10 L
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NameMarkus Luchner
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Number of units1 units
Capacity0.001 - 0.8 L/day
Summary of Drying
Christ alpha 2-4 Lyophilization device for freeze drying of biological and organic substances
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NameMarkus Luchner
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Number of units5 units
Capacity1 - 50 kg
Summary of Drying
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Freeze Dryer lab scale
- 4 kg/batch
- Freeze Dryer pilot scale
- 50 kg/batch
- Drum Dryer
- 15 kg/h
- Spray Dryer pilot scale
- 0,8 kg/h
- Spray Dryer lab scale
- 5 kg/h
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Number of units1 units
Capacity0.5 - 2 L
Summary of Extraction
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Supercritical CO2 Extraction (Natex Pilotanlage)
- 2 L/batch
- co-solvent injection possible (e.g. Ethanol)
- max. extraction temp 80°C
- max. pressure 500 bar
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Number of units2 units
Capacity10 - 100 L/h
Summary of Mechanical separation
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Decanter centrifuge (for separating solids and liquids)
- 5000 rpm
- 2100 g
- 10-100 L/h
- Disc Separator (SA1 Westfalia)
- max. 1000 rpm
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Extraction
Number of units2 units
Capacity0.01 - 5 L
Summary of Pulsed Electric Fields processing
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- PEF – Pulsed Electric Fields (DIL)
- 1-4Hz
- max. 30 kV
- Batch
- PEF – Pulsed Electric Fields (Scandinova)
- 1-1000 Hz
- μs square pulses
- max. 25 kV
- Batch and continuous
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Size reduction and homogenisation
Number of units2 units
Capacity1 - 100 L/h
Summary of Homogenization
Two-stage high pressure homogenizer up to 1000 bar; benchtop system for Lab- and Pilot scale.
* GEA Panda 2–10 L/h throughput
* GEA Ariete – pilot scale system, variable throughput 50-100 L/h
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NameMarkus Luchner
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Number of units2 units
Capacity1 - 50 kg/h
Summary of Extrusion
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Extruder (Cincinnati)
- Extruder (Brabender)
Low Moisture Extrusion, High Moisture Extrusion and Snack Extrusion for food and feed
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Number of units2 units
Capacity1 - 60 L/h
Summary of Homogenization
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- High Pressure Homogenizer (APV)
- max. 400 bar
- max. 60 L/h (depending on the pressure)
- High Pressure Homogenizer (Avestin EmulsiFlex-C5)
- max. 2000 bar
- max. 1-5L/h (depending on the pressure)
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Number of units3 units
Capacity1 - 100 kg/h
Summary of Milling
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Rotor Beater Mill (SR300)
- Wet Mill (Alexanderwerk)
- Wet Mill (Stephan Microcut)
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Cell Cultivation
Number of units2 units
Capacity5 - 60 L (batch)
Summary of Mammalian/Insect Cell Cultivation
Stainless stell bioreactors for cultivation of eucaryotic cells controlled by an industrial process control system with different cultivation strategies
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Contact for this technology
NameMarkus Luchner
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Material technologies
Number of units2 units
Capacity0.5 - 5 kg
Summary of Coating or lamination
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Fluidized bed (AMMAG)
- Fluidized bed (Innojet)
Granulation/Agglomeration, Coating and Hot Melt Coating
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Contact for this technology
NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Sterilisation technologies
Number of units1 units
Capacity2 - 100 L
Summary of UHT
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Continuous UHT treatment – incl. Deaerator and Aseptic Filling
- 20 L/h
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Number of units4 units
Capacity0.1 - 100 L
Summary of Pasteurisation
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- HPP – High Pressure Pasteurization
- Rotary Autoclave incl. Canning
- Continuous HTST-Unit incl. Deaerator and Aseptic Filling (OMVE)
- PEF (Pulsed Electric Fields)
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NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Number of units2 units
Capacity0.01 - 5 L
Summary of Pulsed Electric Fields processing
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- PEF – Pulsed Electric Fields (DIL)
- 1-4Hz
- max. 30 kV
- Batch
- PEF – Pulsed Electric Fields (Scandinova)
- 1-1000 Hz
- μs square pulses
- max. 25 kV
- Batch and continuous
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Contact for this technology
NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Thermal and pressure techniques
Number of units1 units
Capacity0.1 - 1 L
Summary of Ultrasonication
Core Facility Food and Bio Processing offers:
- Ultrasound (Hielscher)
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Contact for this technology
NameRoland Pöttschacher
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Address
Muthgasse 18, CF BioIndustrial Pilot Plant, 1190, Wien, Wien, AT
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