Description
- Main FUTURA housing is mounted away from bioreactor vessel
- Ability to automatically detect and identify connected sensor
- Sensor lifecycle information provided by intelligent management software system
- Full audit trail
- Easily integrated into most small bioreactors
- Futura measures all conductivity ranges and cell types so there is no need to change the sensor between different fermentations
- Sensors available in 12mm diameter (ideal for small bioreactors)
- Designed using materials that conform to Food and Drug Association (FDA) requirements, making it the ideal instrument for the GMP environment
- All sensors are built to withstand high pressure and repeated in-situ chemical, heat sterilisation and autoclaving
- ABER FUTURA provides the optimum radio-frequency field for measuring live biomass in microbial fermentations and cell culture processes
- Sensitivity of sensor to cells is distributed more evenly over a large volume compared to traditional sensors – this also reduces the size of the disturbance caused by any large gas bubbles in a vessel
Tri clamp probe and probe port adaptors are also available. The FUTURA is available in two configurations – standard and remote
Futura System Overview
The FUTURA system’s three primary hardware components are:
The Probe, the FUTURA Instrument (Head Amplifier) and the Transmitter.
Widely adopted by the world’s leading biotech companies in both R&D and cGMP, ABER’s products are small and light but deliver powerful capabilities and great application flexibility.
More on ABER
ABER’s FUTURA and OPTURA range of biomass measurement and monitoring sensors offers compact, lightweight instrumentation for use on conventional and disposable bioreactors alike. ABER’s pioneering work in the development and use of dielectric instrumentation to monitor biomass, by measuring cell membrane capacitance and media conductivity, has regularly set new standards. In the biotech market, our current FUTURA range is seen as the benchmark in determining live cell concentration online in bioreactors.
