The FerMac 368 Gas Analyser analyzes the amount of oxygen uptake and carbon dioxide production in the outlet gas from your bioreactor or fermenter. Real-time monitoring of CO2 and O2 is a valuable tool for the measurement of cell growth within your fermentor vessels. Monitoring these changes can improve productivity by indicating the correct rates for oxygen flow and substrate feed. Using the FerMac 368 Gas Analyser you can also make calculations of respiratory quotient (RQ), oxygen transfer rate (OTR), carbon dioxide transfer rate (CTR), as well as metabolic rate.
The gas analyzer can be used with all major makes of fermentors. Applikon, Infors as well as New Brunswick bioreactors and Braun bioreactors are just some of the fermenter manufacturers for which the FerMac 368 gas analyzer has been supplied.
The FerMac 368 gas analyzer is both easy-to-use and has a lower cost than other cell growth monitoring systems. It will give you better indication of actual cell growth (live cell activity) than an optical density probe; it is easier to set up than a biomass monitoring probe and has a much lower cost than a mass spectrometer. It can be used with bacteriological fermentation and most cell culture work.