Industrial Fermenters
- Fermenters are containers used to grow (‘culture’) microorganisms like bacteria and fungi in large amounts
- These can then be used for brewing beer, making yoghurt and mycoprotein and other processes not involving food, like producing genetically modified bacteria and moulds that produce antibiotics (e.g. penicillin)
- The advantage of using a fermenter is that conditions can be carefully controlled to produce large quantities of exactly the right type of microorganism
A diagram of an industrial fermenter used to produce large quantities of microorganisms
Controlling Conditions in an Industrial Fermenter Table