4th Sem, Biotech

BTC403: Fermentation Technology Syllabus for BT 4th Sem 2017 Pattern Mumbai University

Fermentation Technology detailed syllabus scheme for Biotechnology (BT), 2017 regulation has been taken from the University of Mumbai official website and presented for the Bachelor of Engineering students. For Course Code, Course Title, Test 1, Test 2, Avg, End Sem Exam, Team Work, Practical, Oral, Total, and other information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For all other Mumbai University Biotechnology 4th Sem Syllabus 2017 Pattern, do visit BT 4th Sem 2017 Pattern Scheme. The detailed syllabus scheme for fermentation technology is as follows.

Fermentation Technology Syllabus for Biotechnology SE 4th Sem 2017 Pattern Mumbai University

Fermentation Technology

Prerequisites:

For the complete Syllabus, results, class timetable, and many other features kindly download the iStudy App
It is a lightweight, easy to use, no images, and no pdf platform to make students’s lives easier.
Get it on Google Play.

Course Objectives:

To gain broad knowledge on

  • Role of microorganisms in fermentation
  • The various fermentation technologies used
  • Production of important products through fermentation

Course Outcomes:

  • Appreciate the use of microorganisms for the production of value added commodities.
  • Understand the working of a fermentation system.
  • To describe key industrial bioprocesses, from the traditional to the recently evolved.
  • Integrate biological and engineering principles involved in the production and recovery of commercial products.
  • Develop critical thinking skills and learn to employ a quantitative, scientific approach towards conversion of biological materials to value added products.

Module 1

Introduction to fermentation History and development of fermentation, general requirements of the fermentation, range of fermentation processes, parts of a fermentation process- upstream and downstream processing, aerobic and anaerobic fermentation, solid state and submerged fermentation. 04

Module 2

For the complete Syllabus, results, class timetable, and many other features kindly download the iStudy App
It is a lightweight, easy to use, no images, and no pdf platform to make students’s lives easier.
Get it on Google Play.

Module 3

Isolation, preservation and improvement of industrial microorganisms

  • Isolation methods utilizing selection of the desired characteristics
  • Isolation methods not utilizing selection of the desired characteristics
  • The preservation of industrially important microorganisms
  • Improvement of industrial microorganisms 07
  • The selection of induced mutants synthesizing improved levels of products
  • The use of rDNA techniques

Module 4

Regulatory Mechanisms controlling the catabolic and anabolic pathways of microbes Induction, carbon catabolite repression, crab tree effect, feedback inhibition and repression

Module 5

Media for industrial fermentations & sterilization Introduction, Typical media, Energy sources, Carbon sources, Nitrogen sources, Buffers, Oxygen requirements, Antifoams, Medium optimization, Medium sterilization: The design of batch sterilization processes, The design of continuous sterilization processes, Sterilization of the fermenter, feeds and air, Filter sterilization 06

Module 6

For the complete Syllabus, results, class timetable, and many other features kindly download the iStudy App
It is a lightweight, easy to use, no images, and no pdf platform to make students’s lives easier.
Get it on Google Play.

Module 7

Aeration and agitation The oxygen requirements and supply of industrial fermentations, Determination of KLa, Factors affecting KLa values, The balance between oxygen supply and demand 04

Module 8

Design of fermenter Basic function of a fermenter for microbial or animal cell culture, body construction, various parts of a fermenter 04

Module 9

Important products through Fermentation Organic acids: citric and acetic acid; enzymes : amylase, protease, lipase; antibiotics: penicillin; vitamins: vitB12; aminoacids: lysine, Glutamic acid ; organic solvents: ethanol, acetone butanol; alcoholic breverages: wine, beer; biomass : bakers yeast; biofertilizers; biopesticides; biosurfactant; steroid transformation; biopolymers 08

Assessment

For the complete Syllabus, results, class timetable, and many other features kindly download the iStudy App
It is a lightweight, easy to use, no images, and no pdf platform to make students’s lives easier.
Get it on Google Play.

Reference Books:

  1. Principles of Fermentation Technology – Stanbury P.F., Whitaker A, Hall S. J.
  2. Bioprocess Engineering: Basic concepts – Shuler M.L., Kargi F. (PHI)
  3. Bioprocess Engineering Principles – Doran Pauline M. (Elsevier Pub)
  4. Biotechnology: A textbook of Industrial Microbiology- Cruger, W. and A. Cruger
  5. Introduction to Biochemical Engineering – DG Rao, 2005, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi

For detail syllabus of all other subjects of Biotechnology (BT) 4th Sem 2017 regulation, visit BT 4th Sem Subjects syllabus for 2017 regulation.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*