WO1993014402A1 - Method for determining gas hold-up - Google Patents
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- WO1993014402A1 WO1993014402A1 PCT/GB1993/000011 GB9300011W WO9314402A1 WO 1993014402 A1 WO1993014402 A1 WO 1993014402A1 GB 9300011 W GB9300011 W GB 9300011W WO 9314402 A1 WO9314402 A1 WO 9314402A1
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- G01N33/483—Physical analysis of biological material
- G01N33/487—Physical analysis of biological material of liquid biological material
- G01N33/48707—Physical analysis of biological material of liquid biological material by electrical means
- G01N33/48735—Investigating suspensions of cells, e.g. measuring microbe concentration
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- This invention relates to determination of gas hold-up in a fermentation process and has wider implications for determination of cellular biomass or biovolume and to processes in which such determination is made-
- reactor biomass concentration that is the concentration of microbial or other biological cells in the reactor, because the productivity of a process under a given set of conditions is proportional to the biomass concentration.
- the invention provides a method of determining gas hold-up in a fermentation culture, the method comprising, prior to aeration and during fermentation, inputting a high frequency alternating signal to electrodes in electrical contact with the culture, determining the magnitude of the current signal leading the voltage in the electrode circuit and using the difference in said magnitudes prior to aeration and during fermentation as a measure of the gas hold-up.
- the invention also provides apparatus for determining gas hold-up in a fermentation culture, the apparatus comprising means for inputting a gas high frequency alternating signal to an electrode circuit that includes electrodes in electrical contact with the culture, means for inputting the voltage over the inter electrode gap to a phase sensitive detector, means for imposing a 90° phase lag on a current signal from the electrode circuit and for inputting said lagged signal to the phase sensitive detector to produce a signal related to a quadrature component of current in the electrode circuit.
- Figure 1 illustrates an apparatus for combined conductance measurement of biomass and gas hold-up correction
- Figure 2 schematically illustrates a fermentation reactor provided with the equipment of Figure 1.
- Figure 3 schematically illustrates an alternative apparatus using a separate frequency for gas hold-up measurement
- Figure 4 schematically illustrates a system in which frequency signals are applied sequentially rather than simultaneously.
- Beta dispersion As mentioned above, the electrical behaviour of a cellular suspension or tissue is strongly dependent on frequency, the frequency dependent change relative to the value for an aqueous solution being termed a 'dispersion' .
- Three major sources of dispersion are recognised and are termed alpha, beta and gamma dispersion.
- Beta dispersion as explained in our prior European Patent No. 0281602, is a property of intact cells and is therefore of use in analysing cell content via the electrical behaviour of media incorporating intact biological cells.
- Alpha and gamma dispersions are not predictably dependent upon intact cell concentration, and occur, respectively, at lower and higher frequencies than beta dispersion being related to mobile ions at cell surfaces and dipolar rotation.
- Beta dispersion is essentially due to intact cells having a poorly conducting, relatively ion-impermeable, cellular membrane, whereas the interior of the cell is relatively conducting.
- the position of the beta dispersion curve on the frequency axis is a function of cell radius, membrane capacitance and internal and external electrical conductivities, whilst the magnitude of the dispersion depends upon the concentration, in terms of percentage volume, of the cells in the medium as well as other variables such as cell size.
- the present invention is principally concerned with enabling measurement of gas hold-up in order to establish corrected values for biomass as measured for example by either of the techniques referred to above.
- the frequency used for the capacitance measurement is above the ⁇ dispersion range.
- measurements may need to be taken within the top end of the ⁇ dispersion range, for example if the dispersion range is very extended. This would cause some inaccurancy of the gas fraction estimate; if this is unacceptably large, a curve fitting technique may be used to determine the true high-frequency (i.e. above ⁇ dispersion) capacitance value.
- a measure of gas fraction, as opposed to just aeration rate, is also useful in its own right as a means of monitoring and assisting in the optimisation of some fermentations.
- a circuit for a preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in Figure 1, in which a gas hold-up measurement is combined with conductance measurement to determine biomass.
- the conductance measurement utilises measurement at two frequencies generated by oscillators 1 and 2, with oscillator 2 at high frequency.
- the outputs of the oscillators are combined, amplified, input to an automatic level control 3 and then to the primary winding of an isolating transformer 4. Induced oscillations occur in an electrode circuit 5 connected to the transformer secondary winding.
- outer current electrodes 7, 7' through which the current passes to and from the culture and at which any polarisation effects will occur
- an inner set of voltage electrodes 8, 8' which sample the voltage over a gap intermediate the current electrodes, immune from polarisation.
- a separate circuit 6 for applying pulses to the electrodes for cleaning purposes from time to time may also be provided.
- Other electrode configurations may also be used.
- the voltages sensed by the electrodes 8, 8' are amplified and input to a detector 9 and to band-pass filters 10 and 11.
- Detector 9 completes a feedback loop for automatically controlling the gain of the applied voltage by means of the automatic level control 3. It will be appreciated that the voltage over the electrodes 8, 8' is a combination of voltages having the two different oscillator frequencies and the band-pass filters 10 and 11 are tuned, respectively, to pass the lower and higher frequency voltage signals which constitute phase reference signals for the phase detectors 12 and 13.
- phase sensitive detectors 13 From the band-pass filters the voltage signals are input to respective phase sensitive detectors 13 which also receive a current signal input from the electrode circuit, which for example may be taken over a suitable load.
- the output from the phase sensitive detectors 12 and 13 are signals corresponding to the magnitude of the component of the current signal that is in phase with the respective reference voltage signal, i.e. proportional to the conductance.
- conductance value signals for the lower and higher frequencies are output, respectively, from phase sensitive detectors 12, 13 into a comparator within a difference and correction circuit 14.
- the circuit 14 also receives a temperature dependent signal from a temperature sensor 15 located close to the electrodes in the medium which provides a temperature compensation adjustment from a precalibrated reference.
- the gas hold-up correction is also input to circuit 14.
- This utilises the higher frequency voltage signal, taken after band-pass filter 11 and input to a third phase sensitive detector 16, along with the current signal.
- a measure of the capacitance at the higher frequency is required, and thus prior to the phase sensitive device the current signal is input to a phase shifter 11, which imposes a ⁇ t/2 lag, so that the output of phase sensitive detector 16 is indicative of the magnitude of the current signal leading by ⁇ /2 with respect to the voltage in the electrode circuit, i.e. representative of the capacitance value.
- This capacitance value is used by the correction circuit, using pre-calibrated values, to apply a gas hold-up correction to the final biomass concentration dependent signal output from circuit 14.
- Figure 2 schematically illustrates a fermentation reactor 20 provided with conductance biovolume measuring equipment as previously described.
- the electrode voltage and current sensing circuits including an amplification stage are preferably incorporated in a probe module 21 close to the electrode circuit.
- the main electronic processing unit 22 may then be located remote from the apparatus.
- the apparatus and method for combined biomass measurement and gas hold-up correction have been described in terms of utilising a high and low frequency. More than one high and low frequency may be utilised and the results used to compute biomass concentration and other parameters or used for other correction purposes.
- the gas hold-up capacitance is preferably measured at a third, higher frequency, than the conductance measurement frequencies with suitable additional circuitry as shown in Figure 3 with oscillator 30.
- the high frequency capacitance measurement may be incorporated into a capacitance measuring biomass arrangement to correct the biomass concentration signal for changes in gas hold up.
- measurements may need to be taken within the top end of the ⁇ dispersion range rather than clear of it, for example if the dispersion range is very extended. In such instances, as with the conductance method above, it is possible to utilise either separate or common high frequency signals for the biomass concentration and gas hold-up measurement.
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DE69301910T DE69301910T2 (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1993-01-06 | Procedure for determining gas storage |
GB9412337A GB2280271B (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1993-01-06 | Method for determining gas hold-up |
AU32613/93A AU658971B2 (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1993-01-06 | Method for determining gas hold-up |
CA002121145A CA2121145A1 (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1993-01-06 | Method for determining gas hold-up |
EP93901060A EP0620919B1 (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1993-01-06 | Method for determining gas hold-up |
JP5512228A JPH07502660A (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1993-01-06 | How to measure gas retention in fermentation culture media |
US08/244,359 US5551281A (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1993-06-01 | Method for determining gas hold-up |
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GB929200246A GB9200246D0 (en) | 1992-01-07 | 1992-01-07 | Method and apparatus for determining biomass |
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