Bioproduction Group (Bio-G) has presented its Facility Fit technology at the Bioprocess International (BPI) Conference in Rayleigh, North Carolina.
Rick Johnston of Bio-G gave the presentation, which showed how its advanced simulation platform can be used to provide highly accurate performance estimates of new products and process platforms in existing plants.
Fitting new processes or products into existing plants has traditionally been evaluated using chemical mass-balance models.
However, these process models are often poor estimators of actual process performance, since they fail to account for operational issues in the plant.
Bio-G's research has shown that only around 50 per cent of the overall processing time and 20 per cent of the variability in the process are explained by these models.
Bio-G's Facility Fit model integrates operational plant data into late-stage process design.
This allows a more accurate view of process fit, speeding technology transfer as well as accurately estimating key parameters such as run rate.
