Fermentation Technology detailed syllabus for Biotechnology (BioTech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the BioTech students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO FERMENTATION 9
History and development of fermentation industry; General requirements of fermentation processes; types of fermentation – homo fermentation, hetero fermentation: category of fermentation based on end product formed – lactic acid fermentation, alcohol fermentation, acetic acid fermentation, butyric acid fermentation.
Unit II
ALGAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 9
Isolation, preservation and improvement of industrially important micro- organisms. Microorganisms and raw materials used for microbial Oil production, Current technologies of biofuel production -. Cyanobacterial and algal fuels; Fine chemicals and neutraceuticals from algae; UV absorbing pigments Industrial products from macro algae – seaweed biotechnology; Bioweapons and Bioshields.
Unit III
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Unit IV
BIOLOGICAL EFFLUENT TREATMENT 9
Microbes involved in aerobic and anaerobic processes in nature; Water treatment- BOD, COD, dissolved gases, removal of heavy metals, total organic carbon removal; secondary waste water treatments; use of membrane bioreactor; aquaculture effluent treatment; Aerobic sludge and land fill leachate process; aerobic digestion.
Unit V
FERMENTATION
PROCESS ECONOMICS 9
Process economics: General fermentation process economics; materials usage and cost; capital investment estimate; production cost estimate. Case studies -Traditional product and recombinant
product; Bioprocess validation: Introduction, why validation, when does validation occur,
validation structure, resources for validation, validation of systems and processes including SIP and CIP.
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course the student will be able to
- Recall the basics of industrial fermentation and other processes.
- Extend their knowledge on algal Biotechnology.
- Extend their knowledge on commercial production of primary and secondary metabolites.
- Extend their knowledge on the biological effluent treatment process.
- Support for the commercial production of modern biological products.
- Extend their knowledge on importance of fermentation process economics
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- T. El-Mansi, C. Bryce, Arnold L. Demain, A.R. Allman. Fermentation Microbiology and Biotechnology. Second Edition. (2006). CrC Press, USA.
- Pandey A, Lasroche C, Soccol C. R and Dussop C. G. Advances in Fermentation technology (2008).Asiatech publishers Inc.
- Peter,Max S. and Timmerhaus, Klaus D,Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers,McGraw Hill.
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