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A bioreactor is a device that supports a biologically active environment for processes involving organisms or biological substances. Bioreactors can be batch, fed-batch, or continuous and are commonly cylindrical steel vessels ranging from liters to cubic meters in size. Bioreactors may have submerged or attached cultures and can be operated continuously with immobilized cells.

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A bioreactor is a device that supports a biologically active environment for processes involving organisms or biological substances. Bioreactors can be batch, fed-batch, or continuous and are commonly cylindrical steel vessels ranging from liters to cubic meters in size. Bioreactors may have submerged or attached cultures and can be operated continuously with immobilized cells.

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bioreactor refers to any manufactured device or system that supports a biologically active environment.[1] In one case, a bioreactor is a vessel in which a chemical process is
carried out which involves organisms or biochemically active substances derived from such organisms. This process can either be aerobic or anaerobic. These bioreactors are
commonly cylindrical, ranging in size from litres to cubic metres, and are often made of stainless steel.[citation needed] It may also refer to a device or system designed to
grow cells or tissues in the context of cell culture.[2] These devices are being developed for use in tissue engineering or biochemical/bioprocess engineering.[citation needed]

General structure of a continuous stirred-tank type bioreactor

On the basis of mode of operation, a bioreactor may be classified as batch, fed batch or continuous (e.g. a continuous stirred-tank reactor model). An example of a continuous
bioreactor is the chemostat.[citation needed]
Organisms growing in bioreactors may be submerged in liquid medium or may be attached to the surface of a solid medium. Submerged cultures may be suspended or
immobilized. Suspension bioreactors can use a wider variety of organisms, since special attachment surfaces are not needed, and can operate at a much larger scale than
immobilized cultures. However, in a continuously operated process the organisms will be removed from the reactor with the effluent. Immobilization is a general term describing
a wide variety of methods for cell or particle attachment or entrapment.[3] It can be applied to basically all types of biocatalysis including enzymes, cellular organelles, animal and
plant cells.[4] Immobilization is useful for continuously operated processes, since the organisms will not be removed with the reactor effluent, but is limited in scale because the
microbes are only present on the surfaces of the vessel.

Large scale immobilized cell bioreactors are:

 moving media, also known as moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR)

 packed bed

 fibrous bed

 membrane

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