Patent ID: 9738862
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B01F,C12M

Claim:
1. A bioreactor apparatus, comprising: a vessel establishing an interior space environmentally separable from an exterior space outside of said vessel; an agitation system comprising mixing means arranged in said interior space and drive means adapted to rotate said mixing means, the drive means comprising a drive motor that is arranged in said interior space and in thermal communication with the interior space such that thermal energy created by the drive motor is used in heating processes or reactions in the interior space; a heat exchanger detachably fixed in the interior space; an exchanger framework; and a heat exchanger module, the heat exchanger being mounted to the exchanger framework, the exchanger framework being detachably fixed in the interior space, the exchanger framework being attached to the heat exchanger module, the heat exchanger module being attached between a base module and a lid module, the heat exchanger module comprising a first flange structure and a second flange structure, the first flange structure and the second flange structure being disposed at opposing ends of the cylindrical section, the heat exchanger module arranged to establish an annular and cylindrical section of the vessel separating the interior space from the exterior space, the heat exchanger module being detachably fixed to a next part of the vessel using the first flange structure, the heat exchanger module being detachably fixed to the base module using the second flange structure.