Carrier material for immobilizing microorganisms

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Carrier material to immobilize microorganisms. In known carrier materials in bioreactors the reactor is frequently clogged with microorganisms or organic compounds. The new carrier material ensures that microorganisms or animal cells can be immobilized in high volume concentration without any clogging of the reactor taking place. This objective is achieved in that spheres are used as the carrier material, these consisting--on the one hand--of an open-pore, inorganic sintered body that has in its interior continuous pores that are open to the outside within which, microorganisms and animal cells can be immobilized and multiply and which--on the other hand--are of a density and a diameter …