ABOUT THE COURSE
The course aims to provide fundamental insights to exploit enzymes and microbes for the manufacturing of products which have a huge industrial significance. It uniquely blends the science and engineering with various biochemical processes to obtain products of diverse fields such as chemicals, food, bioenergy etc. The course introduces bioreactors, its types, operation methods and provides an experimental demonstration of the same. Strategies to obtain higher yields, design of the reactors and production of biofuels from microbes are thoroughly explained. Students of various disciplines such as biotechnology, chemical engineering, food engineering, and pharmaceutical industries can be benefitted from the course as it discusses the existing bioprocess applications such as wine and cheese making, antibiotics and vaccines etc. The course majorly focusses on the applications and allows students to gain practical knowledge rather than mere theory. Major bottlenecks for the operation of biochemical industries will be discussed.
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INTENDED AUDIENCE
- Biotechnology
- Chemical Engineering
- Biochemical Engineering
- Food Technology
- Environmental Engineering
- Applied Microbiology
- Pharmacy.
- Knowledge in microbiology
- Biochemistry and mathematics in 10+2 level
- DuPont India
- IFB Agra Industry
- IOC; ONGC
- Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
- Biocon
- United beverages.
COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1: Introduction, Microbes and enzymes of industrial importance
Week 2: Different types of bioreactors and bioreactor design
Week 3: Microbial growth, substrate degradation and product formation kinetics, Tutorial 1
Week 4: Instrumentation, Sterilization of air, media and reactor
Week 5: Upstream and Downstream processing
Week 6: Production of Oxychemicals I
Week 10: Vaccines production and Metal leaching
Week 11: Bioenergy- Gaseous fuels: Biohydrogen, Biomethane and Microbial fuel cell; Liquid fuels: Bioethanol, Biodiesel and Biobutanol
Week 12: Aerobic and Anaerobic wastewater treatment processes
SUGGESTED READING
Week 1: Introduction, Microbes and enzymes of industrial importance
Week 2: Different types of bioreactors and bioreactor design
Week 3: Microbial growth, substrate degradation and product formation kinetics, Tutorial 1
Week 4: Instrumentation, Sterilization of air, media and reactor
Week 5: Upstream and Downstream processing
Week 6: Production of Oxychemicals I
Week 7: Production of Oxychemicals II
Week 8: Production of Oxychemicals III
Week 9: High fructose corn syrup, Cheese making, and Single cell productionWeek 8: Production of Oxychemicals III
Week 10: Vaccines production and Metal leaching
Week 11: Bioenergy- Gaseous fuels: Biohydrogen, Biomethane and Microbial fuel cell; Liquid fuels: Bioethanol, Biodiesel and Biobutanol
Week 12: Aerobic and Anaerobic wastewater treatment processes
SUGGESTED READING
- Industrial Microbiology by Samuel Cate Prescott and Cecil Gordon Dunn
- Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals by Bailey and Ollis
- Bioprocess Engineering Principles by Doran
- Bioprocess Engineering Basic Concepts by Shular and Kargi
- Biochemical Engineering by Blanch and Clark
- Biochemical Engineering by Aiba, Humphrey and Millis
- A textbook of Industrial Microbiology by Wulf Crueger and Anneliese Cruegen
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
- The exam is optional for a fee.
- Date of Exams : October 28 (Sunday)
- Time of Exams : Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
- Exam for this course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
- Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
- The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATION:
- Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
- 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of Best 8 out of 12 assignments
- E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur.It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
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