COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOSORPTION; ITS ISOTHERMS, KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYT 6010 BIOSORPTION; ITS ISOTHERMS, KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞENOL ALPAT

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biotechnology
Ph.D. in Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

Biosorption is an effective technology to remove of organic compounds, metallic elements and especially heavy metals from aqueous solutions. When compared with chemical precipitation, evaporation, elektroplating, adsorption and ion exchange for the removal of trace contaminants, biosorption has advantages such as low cost due to high efficiency and economic sorbents. Nowadays, a wide array of biomaterials are tested as biosorbent for algae, fungi, yeast, activated sludge, aerobics granules, etc.. Of these sorbents, granules aerobic microbial other biyofloklardan more compact structure so biosorption more easily pre-treatment processes are used. Biosorption involves complex mechanisms such as adsorbiyon reaction, ion exchange reaction of functional groups on the cell surface and surface complexation reaction mechanism with extracellular polymeric substances. So far, studies have focused on a better understanding of biosorption mechanism and purification of industrial waste water. The aim of this course is to teach the basic information required for the basic and main applications of biosorption. The pilot and full-scale applications in the laboratory constitute the basic researchs of biosorption technology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : expression of biosorption,
2   Know the applications of biosorption,
3   Know the advantages and disadvantages of biosorption,
4   Know the capacity of biosorbent,
5   Know the use of microorganisms in trace element concentration,
6   Know the mechanism of biyosorption,
7   Know the Fundamentals and Applications of Biosorption Isotherms, Kinetics and Thermodynamics.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction 1.1. Biosorption and sorbents 1.2.The potential of biosorption technology 1.3.Microbial biosorption of metals
2 Removal and recovery of heavy metals by biosorption 2.1. Biosorption mechanism of metal cations and anions 2.2. Biosorption of industrial solutions 2.3.Biosorption in aqueous solutions 2.4.Biosorption of radioactive species
3 The cell wall and metal binding
4 Biosorption by bacterial biomass
5 Biosorption by fungal biomass
6 Biosorption by algal biomass
7 Removal of metals in live cells and their biosorption
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Metal intake with synthetic and biosynthetic chemicals
10 Culture conditions and biomass metal binding properties
11 Production and applications of Bacillus-based products for the use in metal biosorption
12 Immobilization of metal-bonded compounds and sorbents
13 Biosorption isotherms Kinetics of biosorption Thermodynamics of biosorption
14 Homework and Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Volesky, B., Sorption and Biosorption, Montreal, Canada, 2004
Supplementary Book(s): Liu and Jianlong Wang, Fundamentals and Applications of Biosorption Isotherms, Kinetics and Thermodynamics. (Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology), Nova Science Pub Inc,Gebundene Ausgabe, 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Question-answer technique
3. Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, homework and presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Buca Education, Department of Chemistry
senol.alpat@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30 - 15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 35 35
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparing Homework and Presentations 1 35 35
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 166

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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