Making an industrial process visible before it exists.
A transparent, plant-wide model for cultivated meat manufacturing—connecting media preparation, cell expansion, downstream processing, utilities, and uncertainty in one explorable system.
Problem → model → insight → decision.
The value is not a single number. It is a system that makes assumptions inspectable, consequences comparable, and the next engineering question more precise.
Scale-up evidence was fragmented.
Industrial translation depends on more than a bioreactor. Media, seed expansion, sterilization, downstream operations, cleaning, cooling, timing, and waste all interact—but are often studied separately.
The challenge: create one coherent facility view without hiding the gaps in available data.
One flowsheet. Every major process area.
The model links literature-grounded assumptions across media preparation, sequential suspension-cell expansion, a 20,000 L production reactor, clarification, washing, extrusion, packaging, and supporting utilities.
The result: complete mass and energy balances with scenarios that can be inspected and compared.
The bottlenecks extend beyond cell growth.
Depleted medium, cleaning-in-place effluents, cooling demand, and the trade-off between heat sterilization and sterile filtration emerge as critical facility-level considerations.
The shift: from optimizing one unit operation to understanding the industrial system around it.
Focus experiments and design work where they change the system.
The model creates a quantitative basis for comparing process configurations, identifying missing engineering data, and prioritizing validation before facility and scale-up commitments.
The decision tool: an open, interactive model rather than a static conclusion.
From cryostock to
packaged biomass.
Each step carries its inputs, outputs, timing, equations, equipment, utilities, and assumptions into the next.
- 01Prepare
Blend medium components; compare sterile-filtration and heat-sterilization splits.
- 02Expand
Move through shake flasks, wave bioreactors, and stirred-tank reactors.
- 03Produce
Model suspension culture in the final 20,000 L stirred-tank reactor.
- 04Recover
Clarify, wash, cool, extrude, fill, and account for product and waste streams.
- 05Interrogate
Compare scenarios, inspect balances, and export the full technical data package.
What would become clear
if your whole process were visible?
Bring me the process, the uncertainty, and the decision it needs to unlock.
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