Aber Instruments presented at the recent IFPAC conference in Baltimore MD January 28-30, 2008.  The paper was presented by John Carvell and Bob Todd in the session entitled PAT for Bioprocessing. 

A series of slides showed how the Aber Biomass Monitor has become established in bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities and in many cases the instruments has been used as an important PAT tool for monitoring the live cell concentration.

At the accompanying exhibition, Aber Instruments launched a new software package called “AberScan” .  The software allows customers to automatically scan the fermentation or cell culture over a wide range of frequencies and to  derive additional parameters (eg the critical frequency, cole-cole alpha and the specific growth rate) that can used as signposts or for monitoring key events during the process.  A series of papers relating to how frequency scanning can provide this additional information are being published in 2008 and the first of these are in the Winter 2007 edition  of the Wilbio Bioprocessing Journal.

            

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