Vessels & Accessories

Vertical-Wheel Vessels

Pre-sterilized and ready to run. Every Vertical-Wheel® system runs a single-use vessel: gamma-irradiated and ready out of the bag. One vessel geometry scales with your process from 0.1 L bench work all the way to 80 L manufacturing.

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PBS-Mini vessels are available for purchase from the online store today.

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Why Our Vessels

Built for Cells, Not Just Containment

These vessels exist for one job: growing therapeutic cells. Each runs aggregates, microcarriers or free suspension without a hardware change — so the vessel adapts to your cell type, not the other way around.

Gentle Mixing

Homogeneous hydrodynamic conditions throughout the interior keep cells safe and healthy.

Vertical Impeller

One consistent mixing geometry carries a process from 0.1 L all the way to 80 L.

Process Flexibility

Perfusion and configuration options adapt the vessel to what your process needs.

cGMP Ready

Research grade at the bench, fully qualified vessels for clinical work.

Gentle, Uniform, and the Same at Every Scale

Cells see low shear, no dead zones and the same environment in an 80 L vessel as in a 0.1 L one — so a process transfers up without being re-developed.

That is made possible by Vertical-Wheel FLUIDIX™: the specific fluid dynamics — shear, energy dissipation and gas transfer — produced by a large vertical impeller turning slowly inside a U-shaped vessel, characterized by CFD and held constant across the whole range.

How Vertical-Wheel Technology works

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CFD · 3 L at 30 RPM

Energy dissipation stays low and evenly spread

Configurations

The Same Vessel, Configured for Your Process

Fluidix Vessel geometry never changes — the cap and port set do. Pick the configuration that matches how you feed, sample and harvest.

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0.5 L

Standard Cap

Two sealed ports for sampling, inoculation and additions. The default for batch and fed-batch work at 0.5 L.

Batch · fed-batch

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0.5 L

Perfusion Cap

One port carries a dip tube and 60 µm PSC retention filter, so medium can be exchanged while the cells stay in the vessel.

Perfusion · medium exchange

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3 L

Standard Port Set

Head-plate ports for gas, additions and single-use sensors, with a dip tube for sampling and harvest.

Batch · fed-batch · cGMP-aligned

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3 L

Fully Ported

A full dip-tube set for ATF perfusion, closed feed and harvest lines and staged additions — same wheel, same geometry.

Perfusion · closed transfers

One Vessel Line, Every Scale

A Vessel for Every System

System	Working volume	Vessel	Regulatory grade	How to order
PBS-Mini	0.1–0.5 L	Vertical-Wheel® 0.1 L and 0.5 L	Research	Buy online
PBS-MiniPRO	up to 0.5 L	Vertical-Wheel® 0.5 L	Research · Clinical	Request quote
PBS-3	1.8–3 L	Vertical-Wheel® 3 L	Research · Clinical · Commercial	Request quote
PBS-15	10–15 L	Vertical-Wheel® 15 L	Research · Clinical · Commercial	Request quote
PBS-80	40–80 L	Vertical-Wheel® 80 L	Research · Clinical · Commercial	Request quote

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