Mass Flow Controllers & Meters

Mass Flow Controllers & Meters
Bio-Series Mass Flow Meters & Controllers for Scalability in Bioprocessing

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Bio-Series Mass Flow Meters & Controllers for Scalability in Bioprocessing

Bio-Series meters and controllers are designed and constructed specifically for use in bioreactors and fermenters, upstream or downstream. They offer the highest reliability in the industry, with communication protocols to integrate with your existing system. Alicat’s experience in process stages from benchtop R&D through GMP production of biologics and biosimilars ensure robust solutions that will scale with your development.

Reliable, adaptable, and compatible flow control, built to your preferred industrial protocols for Bio-Series integration with Pharma 4.0 systems

Long-term measurement stability due to extremely low zero drift
Resistance to process water contamination with a lifetime warranty and available IP66 ingression
Minimized footprint and piping via gas select feature enabling exchange of CO2, Air, O2, N2 or over 100 other gases without re-calibration or loss of accuracy, and 10,000:1 controllable range
ASME-recommended materials available including 316L stainless steel and USP Class VI FDA-grade certified elastomers
Monitor process and control performance with a high-contrast color display

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Bio-Series meters and controllers are designed for scalability, data compatibility, and ease of use. Upgrade your manual systems to higher-precision, controlled, and monitored mass flow. Alicat devices are available in a wide range of flow rates and are highly customizable for smooth integration into your existing setup or system.

All standard flow rates. Low flow devices range from 1-5 sccm. Mid flow devices range from 10 sccm-20 slpm. High flow devices range from 20-500 slpm.
Communication protocols. Designed for seamless compatibility, Alicat offers a full complement of available protocols: RS-232/analog, RS-485/analog, Modbus RS-232, Modbus RS-485, Modbus TCP/IP, Profibus RS-485, Ethernet/IP, DeviceNet RS-232, and EtherCAT.
Process connections. Standard SAE or NPT connectors.

More information on Bio-Series devices

Bioreactors and fermenters require very low outgassing from wetted materials to ensure products are free from unwanted contaminants. Alicat BIO-Series meters and controllers use USP Class VI elastomers with 316L Stainless Steel flow bodies. Devices with stainless steel valves are available on request.

Common Certifications for Elastomeric Components

Knowledge Base: Biocompatibility of Wetted Materials

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For bioprocessing applications that do not require ASME BPE-2016 compliant materials, the standard series mass flow meters and controllers are designed for a wide range of flows and unparalleled precision and accuracy.

Interested in gas mixing for bioreactors? Fusion Flow‘s modular gas mixing system is designed for seamless integration into existing systems.

Optimizing Bioreactor Production

Bioreactors are used in a growing number of applications, from producing bio-adaptive medicines or environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, to brewing beer, refining ethanol and treating wastewater. The increase in biologics production and single use reactors has led to a need for even greater precision and flexibility in instrumentation.

Flow control for bioreactors

High Flow Control for Gasification

Alicat Scientific mass flow controllers can be used in multiple areas of the gasification process: combustion, clean-up reactors, safety, & quality control. Get more precise syngas production, redundancy between units and extremely fast control. Alicat’s MCR controllers use near-frictionless Rolamite proportional control valves to rapidly and precisely control flow rates up to 5000 slpm. With accuracy of +/- (0.8% of reading + 0.2% of full scale range) to high flow rates, precise composition can be ensured.

Streamlining gasification processes

Lowered Cost and Increased Speed for Biologics Production

With protocols for bioprocessing now firmly established, there is an increasing focus on reducing the cost of producing biologics, biosimilars, mABs and other modern medicines that require bioreactions and current trends toward single use bioreactors. You can reduce your cost per run and extend your processes with Alicat’s mass flow accuracy as low as 0.1% of full scale and unbeatable repeatability of +/- 0.02% of full scale readings.

Increasing efficiency of bioreactions

Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment: An Overview

Bioreactors are now a common part of wastewater treatment. Alicat’s revolutionary differential-pressure based mass flow controllers allow for extreme flexibility in mass flow control and the response times needed to make this process efficient and cost effective.

Bioreactors in wastewater treatment