ENCH482-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Bioprocess Engineering 2

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 21 May 2017

Description

Bioreactor design and operation including bacteria, yeast and tissue culture, formulation, bioseparations.

Topics

Dr. Gabriel Visnovsky (Teaching weeks 1-4 and 11-12):  18 lectures

Animal cell culture: uses and applications in industry and biotechnology
• Introduction and history.
• Design and requirements for setting up an animal cell culture lab.
• Security in the lab.
• Animal cell culture characteristics and requirements.
• Quality control
• General techniques and systems for cultivation of animal cells: static, suspension and microcarriers cell culture.
• Factors influencing cell growth: shear stress, bioreactor design and process scale up
• Strategies for production process design. Lab, pilot, and large scale: CSTR vs. ALR
• Case Study I: Production of Baculovirus in large scale airlift reactors using insect cells
• Case Study II: Development, optimisation and scale up of a biotechnological process to produce Oryctes virus.

Prof. Conan Fee (Teaching weeks 5-10): 18 lectures (Room E528 ext 94078)

Bioseparations and Chromatography
• Bioproducts
• Review of biological molecule properties (emphasis on proteins)
• General bioseparation principles
• Process scale protein chromatography
• Adsorption isotherms
• Bioseparation strategies
• Optimisation and scale-up

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Gabriel Visnovsky

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 2 20%
Final Exam 30%
Mid-Term Test 30%
Assignment 1 05 May 2017 20%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Ratledge, Colin. , Kristiansen, B; Basic biotechnology ; 3rd ed; Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,038.00

International fee $5,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

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