Bioprocess Engineering

Bioprocess Engineering: Microbial growth and enzyme kinetics, stoichiometry of growth and yield. Design and operation of batch, fed-batch, and continuous (CSTR/Chemostat) reactors, including sterilization kinetics. Fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and oxygen mass transfer coefficients. Upstream media formulation and downstream processing, including cell disruption, centrifugation, filtration, chromatography and other analytical techniques (HPLC, Massspectroscopy). Design of bioreactors and downstream unit operations and scale-up strategies. Process instrumentation, feedback/feed-forward control systems. Industrial production of metabolites, vaccines, biofuels, and biological wastewater treatment processes.