COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KIM 6011 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERAP SEYHAN BOZKURT

Offered to

Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry

Course Objective

Major objective of the course is to introduce fundamentals of bioprocess technologies for production of chemicals,foods, pharmaceuticals and waste treatment. A brief coverage of process biochemistry and microbiology will be presented. Enzymatic and microbial conversions will be covered for suspended and immobilized biocatalysts. Bioreactorconsiderations and product separation techniques will constitute major parts of the course.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the Basic Biochemistry and Microbiology
2   Explain the structure, function and kinetics of enzymes
3   Explain the configuration and instrumentation of bioreactors
4   Explain to recover and purificate of products
5   Explain of some applications in chemical and food industries

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Bioprocess Engineering
2 Basic Biochemistry and Microbiology
3 Enzymes: Structure,function and kinetics I
4 Enzymes: Structure,function and kinetics II
5 Microbial growth and product formation
6 Stochiometry of microbial growth and product formation
7 Bioreactors: Configuration and instrumentation
8 Midterm
9 Operational modes of bioreactors
10 Immobilized Cell Bioreactors: Design Considerations
11 Scale-up of Bioreactors
12 Recovery and purification of products
13 Some applications in chemical and food industries
14 Presentations of Students

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): M.L.Shuler, F.Kargi. Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts, Prentice Hall, 1992.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation,
Questions and answers,
Homework

Assessment Methods

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


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, active participation to the lecture, homework.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 16 16
Preparation for Final Exam 1 20 20
Preparing Presentations 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Mid-term 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 138

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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