| Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
| Degree of Agricultural and Food Engineering (2010) |
 Subjects |
| BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2013_14 |
| Subject | BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING | Code | 20214210 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Optional | Second |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Bioprocesses: White, green, blue and red biotechnology. Sustainability, green chemistry, and biocatalysis. The economics of bioprocesses, bioethics and legislation. |
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| 2. Flowsheeting of the typical bioprocess. Reaction and separation processes. |
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| 3. Bioreactor and implications of biocatalysts in their design. | 3.1. Categories of bioreactors. Batch vs. Continuous. Mass and energy balances. 3.2. Immobilised biocatalysts. Mathematical analysis. The basic problem: mass transport coupled with reaction. 3.3. Enzymatic reactors: kinetics and design or analysis considerations. Reactors with immobilised enzymes. 3.4. Cell bioreactors: kinetics, microbial and animal cell bioreactors. |
| 4. Separation and purification processes of special interest in Biotechnology. | 4.1 Centrifugation 4.2 Membrane processes 4.3 Chromatographies |
| 5. Nutritional media development. | |
| 6. Scale-up in bioprocesses | |
| 7. Genetic engineering applications in bioprocesses. | |
| 8. Applications of bioprocesses: water treatment, pharmaceuticals, fermentations. |
