Climate retainment in carbon dioxide incubators

Ensuring optimal climate conditions during cultivation is essential for successful and reproducible cell culture based investigation. Being the gold standard, carbon dioxide incubators fulfill this demand in various geometries and sizes to suit diverse cultivation applications. A door opening result...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schuh Matthias B., Kirsch Michael, Dillmann David, Breuer Franziska, Eblenkamp Markus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2016-09-01
Series:Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
Subjects:
cfd
udf
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2016-0073
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Summary:Ensuring optimal climate conditions during cultivation is essential for successful and reproducible cell culture based investigation. Being the gold standard, carbon dioxide incubators fulfill this demand in various geometries and sizes to suit diverse cultivation applications. A door opening results in a climate breakdown followed by a restoration period during which optimal conditions cannot be guaranteed. The following paper investigates the influence of incubator door design to optimize climate retainment during the above mentioned event.
ISSN:2364-5504