Bio-industrial Pilot Plant (CFPP)
http://www.biotec.boku.ac.at/arbeitsgruppenresearch-groups/bio-industrial-pilotplant/
Core Data
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Address:
Austria
Location
Muthgasse 18, TZM, Wien, PO: 1190 (Austria)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited
Coordinating Country
Austria
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 2014
Timeline
Being upgraded since 2012 to 2013
Scientific Description
Mission and objectives
The Core Facility "Bioindustrial Pilot Plant" at the Vienna Institute of BioTechnology (VIBT) serves as education, training and test site for modern biotechnology. The focus is primarily on education and research-driven education with emphasis on industrial biotechnology. The plant is provided with a full set of state of the art up- and downstream processing equipment for small and pilot scale production of recombinant proteins covering bacterial, yeast and mammalian expression systems. Main fields are scale up studies, on-line monitoring of bioprocesses, bioprocess engineering of unit operations. Besides education, the plant can be used for industrial cooperations.

RI Keywords
Biopharma, Upstream, Separation, Primary recovery, Microbial fermentation, Filtration, Secondary recovery, Homogenization, Mammalian cell culture, Downstream, Chromatography
Classifications
RI Category
Cell Culture Facilities
Pilot Plants for Process Testing
Scientific Domain
Biological and Medical Sciences
ESFRI Domain
Health and Food
Services
Research and collaboration with industrial and academic partners

Research topics in cooperation with industrial and academic partners in up- and downstream processing (especially for up-scale of bio processes).

Training of students, diploma students, PhDs

Scientific programme with training of young researchers.

Equipment
Ultrafiltration unit

UF for ultra- and microfiltration.

Separator

separator up to 200 L/h output.

Chromatography unit

Äkta Pilot.

5 Bioreactors

microbial fermentation: 40 to 250 Lmammalian cell culture: 80 to 1500 L.

Homogenizer

homogenizer up to 100 L/h output.