Alessandra Gemma Maria Vanzelli
Observer design for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Processes.
Rel. Diego Regruto Tomalino, Martin Steinberger. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Mechatronic Engineering, 2026
Abstract
The monitoring and control of bioprocesses represent a crucial challenge in modern biotechnology. Bioreactors are inherently nonlinear and highly sensitive to operational and environmental variations, while also being subject to intrinsic biological variability. Moreover, many of their most relevant internal variables cannot be directly measured in real time, and those that are available are often indirect or noisy, which altogether complicates effective monitoring and control. In particular, the concentration of recombinant products remains inaccessible to current online sensing technologies, compromising the ability to ensure consistent and reproducible process performance. To overcome this limitation, developing mathematical tools capable of reconstructing these hidden states is indispensable for strengthening process supervision, improving controllability, and ultimately ensuring product quality in industrial biomanufacturing.
This thesis addresses these challenges through the modelling and analysis of a 20-liter stirred-tank bioreactor dedicated to the production of recombinant human Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (hSOD) using Escherichia coli HMS174(DE3)
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