Laboratory VI Bioprocess Engineering and Technology

Paper Code: 
24BTE328
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
120
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to build upon postgraduate level knowledge of technology involved in bioprocess engineering. The course shall impart the students with hands-on training in basic Microbiology and fermentation experimental set up and data analysis along with understanding of unit operations.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course title

 

24BTE328

 

Laboratory VI Bioprocess Engineering and Technology

(Practical)

 

CO162: take part in isolation of microorganism from soil, scaling up of cultures and list the related instrumentation

CO163: mark the experimental set up of bioreactor and assess the parameters for growth kinetics, substrate & product inhibitors and residual substrates

CO164: Analyze types of fermentation cultures along with unit operations and metabolic flux analysis and analytical techniques   

CO165: Identify and illustrate the various elements of Bioinformatics.

CO166: Discuss and defend the concepts of Bioinformatics and illustrate the exercises performed with appropriate methods and outcomes and maintain proper documentation of the same.

CO167: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:  Hands-on practical, demonstrations, simulations

 

 

Learning activities for the students:  Discussion,

Tutorials,

Assignments

Reading Journals

 

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Hands-on practical assessment, file making, viva voce

Experiments based on:

 Bioprocess Engineering and Technology

1. Basic Microbiology techniques

 a) Scale up from frozen vial to agar plate to shake flask culture.

 b) Instrumentation: Microplate reader, spectrophotometer, microscopy.

 c) Isolation of microorganisms from soil samples.

2. Experimental set-up

 a) Assembly of bioreactor and sterilization.

 b) Growth kinetics.

 c) Substrate and product inhibitions.

 d) Measurement of residual substrates.

3. Data Analysis

 a) Introduction to Metabolic Flux Analysis (MFA).

4. Fermentation

 a) Batch.

 b) Fed-batch.

 c) Continuous.

5. Unit operations

 a) Microfiltrations: Separation of cells from broth.

 b) Bioseparations: Various chromatographic techniques and extractions.

6. Bioanalytics

 a) Analytical techniques like HPLC, FPLC, GC, GC-MS etc. for measurement

 of amounts of products/substrates

 

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