The Bioprocessing Laboratory
A state of the art Bioprocessing laboratory has recently opened in the School. The lab was jointly funded by Newcastle University and One NorthEast and is managed through the Biopharmaceutical Bioprocessing Technology Centre (BBTC). The BioLab is used by students and industry for teaching, training and research into bioprocessing. The facilities provide access to a range of small scale unit operations and implements the latest equipment and instrumentation used in bioprocessing systems.
Measurement and analysis are foundation capabilities that bioprocess improvements are built on. An industry grade SCADA system provides the information backbone to the BioLab. This system allows information from bioprocess unit operations to be combined with advanced process measurement and compared against process representations in real time using state of the air data analysis techniques. This innovative infrastructure allows end product quality to be linked to real time process variability.
Our collaborative projects make direct use of results from the BioLab and production scale operations and the BBTC provides the infrastructure to analyse the data arising using state of the art statistical software tools.
Many projects in the BioLab are industrial collaborations with bioprocess companies and equipment vendors. The BioLab is set up to exploit the latest measurement technology, partnering with instrumentation providers allowing a rich source of bioprocess data to be acquired from a range of processing steps resulting in greater insight into end to end process behaviour.
Take a virtual tour of the School and our facilities, including the BioLab.