Description
Features
- Multiplexed inlet: Connects to up to 8 fermenters or bioreactors using an integrated inlet line selector.
- Real-time display: O₂ and CO₂ concentrations are shown live on the PC interface.
- Data analysis: The system calculates and displays the respiration coefficient based on live gas measurements.
Key Features of the METIS Gas Analyser
Advanced Design & Control
- Equipped with high-tech components, including low internal volume transducers and minimal moving parts, ensuring improved gas exchange and long-term reliability.
- Controlled via an integrated PLC board, which manages all system components and instrumentation.
Real-Time Data Acquisition & Visualisation
- Continuous real-time data acquisition, converting sensor signals into precise, unit-specific values for each variable.
- Live graphical representation of O₂ and CO₂ trends, with tools for configuration adjustments, dynamic zoom, scale modification, and graph export.
Customisation & Calibration
- Flexible channel configuration, allowing you to select and define the gases to be monitored.
- Built-in probe calibration functionality.
- Temperature compensation for enhanced measurement accuracy.
Advanced Calculations
Automatic calculation of key respiratory parameters:
- OUR – Oxygen Uptake Rate
- CER – Carbon Dioxide Evolution Rate
- RQ – Respiratory Quotient
Leonardo: Supervisory Control Software
Leonardo is the Process Control System (PCS) software installed across the full Solaris product range, including benchtop bioreactors and fermenters, pilot and industrial systems, and tangential flow filtration (TFF) platforms. Using a common software environment across all scales helps simplify training, day-to-day operation, and process scale-up.
The software is web-based and supplied on a 24” all-in-one touchscreen interface running a Linux operating system. Leonardo communicates with one or more Siemens PLCs to control, monitor, and record all relevant process parameters throughout cultivation or filtration runs.
Real-time process data is displayed clearly to the user, providing immediate visibility of key operating conditions and system performance. Historical data logging, trend analysis, and process records are also available to support development work, optimisation, and batch traceability.
Leonardo is designed to be intuitive and easy to navigate. Pages are clearly structured around their relevant functions, allowing users to access controls, trends, recipes, calibration tools, and alarms efficiently. An integrated context-help manual is included within the software, explaining the purpose of each on-screen function and helping new users become confident quickly.
The result is a powerful yet user-friendly control platform that supports both routine operation and advanced process development, while maintaining a consistent user experience from benchtop scale through to production systems.
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More on Solaris
Solaris Biotech benchtop fermenters and bioreactors offer efficient platforms for R&D and product development applications. Their broad range of products are flexible and easy to use, ensuring there is always a solution specific to your needs and requirements – from research scale of a few hundred ml up to cGMP production of > 2000L.
Benefits include compact and user friendly designs, parallel software platform, up-to-date and open communication protocols.
The product range is used in universities, schools and research centres, as well as in pharma, nutraceutical, cosmeceutical, chemical, agricultural, and food and beverage industries, not to mention bioplastics and biofuels applications.
Solaris Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) systems, fully automated within the Kronos product line, combine industrial elements and a compact design. For larger scale TFF applications open to customisation, consider the Tytan platform.
