Modelling Stirred Suspension Bioreactors for Scalable Expansion of Pluripotent Stem Cells

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dc.contributor.advisorKallos, Michael S.
dc.contributor.authorWyma, Alexander Arun
dc.contributor.committeememberDe La Hoz Siegler, H.
dc.contributor.committeememberGates, Ian Donald
dc.contributor.committeememberEdwards, William Brent
dc.contributor.committeememberKantzas, Apostolos
dc.date2018-11
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-10T14:33:21Z
dc.date.available2018-07-10T14:33:21Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-25
dc.description.abstractThe emerging field of regenerative medicine seeks to leverage the potential of stem cell therapies to treat a wide variety of diseases and conditions. Sophisticated bioprocesses with engineering controls are required to produce the billions of cells required to facilitate these therapies. To this end, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been gaining popularity as a tool to characterize the hydrodynamic environment stem cells experience during bioprocessing. Recent studies have shown mammalian stem cell cultures have non-Newtonian viscosity, while CFD investigations of mammalian stem cell bioprocessing have assumed they are a Newtonian fluid. This study compares CFD simulations of 100mL and 500mL stirred suspension bioreactors with Newtonian and non-Newtonian viscosity models. Findings indicate shear stress, turbulent energy dissipation rate, power number, and turbulent power ratio are all significantly affected by the difference in viscosity models. Further, volume average turbulent energy dissipation rate from CFD studies with non-Newtonian viscosity was used to successfully maintain murine embryonic stem cell aggregate size distribution during bioreactor scale-up. The results of this study demonstrate the need for accurate representation of cell culture viscosity and highlight the power of CFD as a tool to control and optimize stem cell bioprocessing.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWyma, A. A. (2018). Modelling Stirred Suspension Bioreactors for Scalable Expansion of Pluripotent Stem Cells (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/32344en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/32344
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/107122
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.facultySchulich School of Engineering
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectBioreactor
dc.subjectCFD
dc.subjectStem Cell
dc.subjectAggregate
dc.subjectRheology
dc.subjectPopulation Balance
dc.subjectScale-Up
dc.subject.classificationEngineeringen_US
dc.subject.classificationEngineering--Biomedicalen_US
dc.titleModelling Stirred Suspension Bioreactors for Scalable Expansion of Pluripotent Stem Cells
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineBiomedical Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science (MSc)
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