Industrial Microbiology 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, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU BIOTECH 8th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Biotechnology Engineering 8th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-4) subjects refer to Professional Elective-4 Scheme. The detail syllabus for industrial microbiology is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
INTRODUCTION: The era of the discovery of Microbes,Scope of Industrial Microbiology and fermentation technology. Growth of Industrial Fermentations .Study of industrially important micro-organisms and their preservation. Criteria for selection and strategies for strain improvement; maintenance and containment of recombinant organisms.
Module 2
FERMENTATION PROCESS: Characteristics of an Ideal Production Media, Raw materialsfor production. Batch culture: growth kinetics; effect of environment: temperature, pH, nutrient concentration; monitoring microbial growth in culture: cell number, direct and indirect methods. Continuous culture: concepts of Newtonian and Non- Newtonian fluid, plastic fluids, apparent viscosities; anti-foam agents.
Module 3
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Module 4
MICROBIOLOGICAL ASSAY AND SOLID STATE FERMENTATION (SSF): Introduction and History of Assay, Microbiological assay of: Vitamins and Amino Acids, Antibiotics, Trace elements. Advantages and Disadvantages of Microbiological Assay. Estimation of growth in SSF, concept of sterility. Comparison of SSF with SmF. Factors influencing SSF, kinetics, design of fermentor in SSF(Koji fermentor). Production of commercially important products by SSF (cellulases, penicillin, gibberillic acid).
Module 5
DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING: Objectives and criteria, foam separation, precipitation methods, filtration, centrifugation, cell disruption methods, liquid extraction, membrane filtration, chromatography, drying devices, crystallization. Solvent recovery. Effluent treatment. Quality control of fermented products, Process economics.
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:
- Microbiology Michael J PelczarJr Chan ECS, Noel R Krieg Tata McGraw Hill 5 th Edn.
- Microbiology Prescott, Harley, Klein McGraw Hill 2008
- Industrial Microbiology Palynology and its applications Samuel C Prescott, Cecil G Dunn Agro bios (India. 1962
- Microbiology: Principles and Explorations Jacquelyn G. Black John Wiley & Sons 8th Edition, ,2012
Reference Books:
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