Content
The module contains the lectures Bioprocess Engineering I (BVT I-VL, winter semester) and the Bioprocess Engineering I practical course (BVT I-PR (summer semester). The lecture is accompanied by seminars
accompanied by seminars.
BVT I-VL: Lectures accompanied by seminars and exercises. In addition, students prepare a term paper (Experimental Design).
Introduction to industrial bioprocesses, culture media, experimental design, bioreactor design and instrumentation, kinetic models, mass transport in bioreactors, biotechnological processes (batch, fed-batch, continuous culture), sterilisation, modelling of bioprocesses, DoE modelling with Modde, simulation exercises with Matlab.
BAT I-P: Cell growth in the bioreactor, balancing, modelling of simple processes, Kla value/oxygen transfer.