Electro-Optical-Module EOM-CO2-mini

In bioprocess development & production, monitoring dissolved CO₂ in addition to pH and O₂ provides valuable information. It ensures stress-free cultivation conditions during mammalian cell culture (e.g. CHO cell-line). Constant pH and / or oxygen supply and sufficient nutrition levels are key parameters to optimize yield. Thereby, excess CO₂ can act as a stressor or even a toxin to the culture and has to be controlled. The chemical optical CO₂ sensors can enhance performance of process monitoring during cultivation in disposables, leading to process optimization.

Increased CO₂ uptake from the atmosphere caused by anthropogenic sources is believed to cause ocean acidification, with not yet foreseeable effects on marine life and ecosystem. Monitoring pCO₂ in experimental set-ups simulating future levels of carbon dioxide can help to gain knowledge on the effects of ocean acidification on marine fauna. Besides the marine application, monitoring pCO₂ also allows knowledge to be gained on land-based plant physiology. Monitoring pCO₂ helps increasing yield during aquaculture of fish (fish farming) by providing convenient growth conditions. Excess carbon dioxide levels need to be monitored as this leads to hyperventilation of sea animals.

PLC programming can be a challenging and time-consuming task. Establishing a stable working connection to third-party hardware via interfaces such as RS485 is error prone. PreSens offers you the right support! We provide LAD-schemes and SCL-scripts, the corresponding TIA-project files and even wiring tables to help you connecting your EOM boards to a Siemens-S7-(1200-)PLC, nearly instantly. Nothing stands in the way of further development into company-specific solutions such as process control. Contact our service team!