Patent ID: 9745547
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: C12M,H02J,Y02B,Y04S

Claim:
1. A method for controlled operation of a biotechnological apparatus comprising at least one bioreactor, functional components each assigned to the at least one bioreactor and which can be used for operational management during operation of the at least one bioreactor, and a control unit coupled to a first group of the functional components in order to give control signals during operation to at least the first group of the functional components, wherein the method for controlling electrical power consumption for the first group of the functional components during operation comprises: providing electronic information about a predefined total electrical power consumption for the first group of the functional components in the control unit, generating a respective present power control signal for the functional components of the first group of the functional components in the control unit, determining, in the control unit, a currently required total electrical power consumption for a present operating situation, the determination based at least in part on the respective present power control signal for the first group of the functional components, adjusting the respective present power control signal for one or more of the functional components from the first group of the functional components in order to optimize power consumption, in response to determining that a comparison shows for the first group of the functional components that the currently required total electrical power consumption is greater than the predefined total electrical power consumption, such that, for the first group of the functional components, an adjusted total electrical power consumption is not greater than the predefined total electrical power consumption taking into consideration the one or more adjusted power control signals and selectively remaining, unadjusted present power control signals, and outputting the one or more adjusted power control signals and the selectively remaining unadjusted present power control signals via the control unit to the functional components of the first group of the functional components.