bioreactor

From bio- +‎ reactor.

bioreactor (plural bioreactors)

2. (biochemistry) A vat or pressure vessel, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for biotechnological processes such as fermentation, waste recycling, or making drugs.

   Hypernyms: chemical reactor (sometimes construed as coordinate), reaction vessel < reactor

   Hyponyms: biodigester, biogester, chemostat, microbioreactor, minibioreactor, nanobioreactor, photobioreactor, sonobioreactor

   • 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr., Glen T. Daigger, Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition, page 189:

     First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.