Bioprocess Engineering detailed Syllabus for Biotechnology Engineering (BIOTECH), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU BIOTECH 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU BIOTECH 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for bioprocess engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY: Introduction to Fermentation technology: Types of fermentation Process-submerged and solid state fermentation. Modes of fermentation-Batch, continuous and fed-batch, Principle components of fermentor. Microbial growth kinetics and Optimization of fermentation process. Strategies to optimize product yield. Production of primary and secondary metabolites. Process design criteria for various classes of byproducts (high volume, low value products and low volume, high value products), Microbiology of brewing (Distilled and non-distilled beverages with examples).
Module 2
PRODUCTION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES: Enumeration and screening of novel microbial primary and secondary metabolites, strain improvement strategies. Preservation of microbial culture. Secondary metabolite production-strategies for optimizing product yield, culture conditions, selection of high yielding lines, elicitation. Factors affecting secondary metabolites, industrial application of secondary metabolites. Production of antibiotics
Module 3
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Module 4
MEMBRANE SEPARATION & ENRICHMENT OPERATIONS : Membrane-based separations theory; Design and configuration of membrane separation equipment; Solute polarization and cake formation in membrane ultra-filtration-causes, consequences and control techniques; Use of membrane diffusion as a tool for separating and characterizing naturally occurring polymers; separation by solvent membranes; reverse osmosis
Module 5
PRODUCT IDENTIFCATION AND RECOVERY :
Principle and Applications of Electrophoresis-their types. Chromatographic separation processes:Principles and protocols of Chromatographic techniques: Thin layer chromatography: Single dimensional (Both Ascending and Descending) and two dimensional chromatography, Adsorption column chromatography. Ion Exchange Chromatography, Affinity Chromatography Gel Filtration Chromatography, Gas Chromatography,
High Performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-analytical and preparative.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Principles of fermentation Technology P.F. Stanbury and A. Whitaker Pergamon Press 3rd edition, 2016
- Animal Cell Technology AshokMukhopadya y IK Intl. Ltd 1st edition, 1994
- Downstream Process Technology-A new horizon in Biotechnology Nooralabetta Krishna Prasad PHI Learning Private Limited 2010
- Bioseparation-Downstream processing for biotechnology Belter P.A., Cussier E. and Wei Shan Hu Wiley Interscience Pub 1987
- Separation Processes in Biotechnology Asenjo J. et al., Marcel Dekker Publications 1st edition, 1990
Reference Books:
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For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE 7th Sem Biotechnology Engineering, visit (BIOTECH) 7th Sem Syllabus Subjects.
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