Bioreactor Design and Scale up Process 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.
For Biotechnology 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit BioTech 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to BioTech Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of bioreactor design and scale up process is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
AERATION AND AGITATION IN BIOPROCESS SYSTEMS 9
Mass transfer in agitated tanks; Power requirement for mixing; Agitation rate studies – Mixing time and residence time distribution; Bioreactor Geometry – Reactor, impeller, sparger and baffle design; shear damage, bubble damage, methods of minimizing cell damage. Case Studies for Aeration and Agitation;
Unit III
SELECTION AND DESIGN OF BIOPROCESS EQUIPMENT 9
Materials of construction for bioprocess plants – Design considerations for maintaining sterility of process streams processing equipments, selection, specification – Design of heat and mass transfer equipment used in bioprocess industries.
Unit IV
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Unit V
CASE STUDIES 9
Requirements, design and operation of bioreactor for microbial, plant cell and animal cell.
Text Books:
- Michael L. Shuler, Fikret Kargi, Matthew De Lisa,.Bioprocess Engineering, 3rd Edition,Prentice Hal, 2017
- Pauline Doran, Bioprocess Engineering Calculation, 2nd Edition, Blackwell Scientific Publications,2012
- James M. Lee, Biochemical Engineering, Prentice Hall, 1992
Reference Books:
- James E. Bailey and David F. Ollis, Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, McGraw Hill 1986.
- S.Liu, Bioprocess Engineering: Kinetics, Biosystems, Sustainability, and Reactor Design, Elsevier, 2016
- Octave Levenspiel, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Wiley 2016.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Biotechnology 5th Sem, visit BioTech 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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