bioreactor
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[edit]bioreactor (plural bioreactors)
- (biochemistry) A vat or pressure vessel, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for biotechnological processes such as fermentation, waste recycling, or making drugs.
- Hyponyms: biodigester, biogester, chemostat, photobioreactor
- 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition, page 189:
- First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.
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[edit]A fermentation vat containing microorganisms
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