Dahlia Petal™
Perfusion Bioreactor System
Scale up your fermentation effortlessly.
Meet the Dahlia Petal™
Our largest microbial perfusion fermentation system designed to enable immediate process scale-up from the benchtop Daisy Petal™ system without any additional testing.
The Dahlia Petal™ is an integrated system for perfusion fermentation delivering hundreds of liters of fluid output during a continuous bioprocessing run in just 1.5 sq meters. Its footprint is significantly smaller than fermenters delivering similar volumes in batch.
The Dahlia Petal™ is fully automated by HelianthOS™, Sunflower’s proprietary operating system that controls all parameters during a fermentation. Users get a “hands-free” experience, just like using the Daisy Petal™, whether it’s your first fermentation or your five hundredth.
The Dahlia Petal™ is Sunflower’s advanced perfusion fermentation bioreactor for continuous protein, molecule or biomass production. Ready-to-use consumables and comprehensive automation shorten timelines to get started on the Dahlia Petal™ and make for quick turnarounds between fermentations. Dahlia Petal™ incorporates Sunflower’s state of the art perfusion capability and proprietary single-use parts deliver functional value and environmental sustainability compared to batch-based processing. Achieve your protein production goals and scale up easily using the Dahlia Petal™.
Works continuously for you
Dahlia Petal™ uses Sunflower’s patented cell retention technology for perfusion to continuously feed the biomass in the bioreactor and continuously remove or harvest cell culture fluids (cells like clean, healthy spaces, too!)
Big volumes from a small footprint
Dahlia Petal™ has a 15L working volume that can process 200 L (or more!) output fluid during one operation. (No need to have a giant bioreactor to achieve giant protein yields.)
Simple set up for anyone
Users can start a new fermentation in just hours, not days, based on guided installation of our ready-to-use structured single-use bioreactor assemblies with pre-built flowpaths.
Automated from start to finish
Sunflower’s universal HelianthOS™ software automates all the Dahlia Petal™ operations, including system initiation activities and in-process monitoring and controls to provide a worry-free (and hands-free!) fermentation experience.
Scale up instantly
Dahlia Petal™ has consumables and controls that are built to work together exactly like the Daisy Petal™ so that the bioreactor environment is the same at both scales. A fermentation process from the Daisy Petal™ can be deployed on the Dahlia Petal™ immediately using our custom scale-up software as part of our “Plug-N-Produce”™ functionality.
It’s all in the box–if you need it
Ancillary equipment can be provided, or not, depending on your facilities. In every case, we work with you to deliver all the capability needed to get going fast!
Capacity grows with your product
Is demand for your products increasing? How exciting! Adding agile capacity is simple, just add one Dahlia Petal™ at a time for the right balance of manufacturing output to market uptake.
Cutting edge sustainability
Intensified continuous processes deployed on the Dahlia Petal™ use markedly less water and energy than legacy batch processing (as much as 90%!)
- Scale up continuous processes instantly from Daisy Petal™
- Deploy processes for clinical-scale product development or commercial manufacturing without complications
- Maximize facility utilization with quick turnarounds between fermentations
- Maintain high cell densities needed to achieve productivity goals
- Sustain productivity and quality for longer fermentation runs to realize the best manufacturing costs
- Achieve commercial-scale production with minimal capital investment
- Balance commercial outputs with product uptake using multi-product flexibility and predictable process scale-out (not scale up!)
