Entry requirements

Protein Biotechnology, 10 credits or Scientific Computing II, 5 credits together with Methods in biotechnology 5 credits.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• account for and compare the fundamental properties of different types of reactors and different modes of operation.
• determine specifications for one or more reactors in order to fulfil given process requirements in relatively simple systems.
• analyse and calculate material balances for non-reactive as well as reactive processes in single and multiple unit systems.
• use simulation tools to optimise advanced industrial chemical and biotechnological problems which require solution of systems of ordinary differential equations.
• explain and discuss different models that describe both simple and more complex chemical and biotechnological systems.
• describe at a general level the principles of solvers for partial differential equations functions and use simulation tools for these.
• account for simple large-scale processes for production and/or purifying of drugs/biomolecules within the industry.
• broadly account for the process in industrial activities in terms of productivity exchange and cost per unit operation/complete process.

Content

Chemical and biotechnological reactions and adsorption from a physical - chemical aspect. Reactors. Steady-state operation. Material balance. Single and multiple unit systems. Degrees of freedom analysis. Rates of reactions. Conversion. Engineering separation methods in pilot and industry scale. Modelling of homogeneous system. Introduction to modelling of two-phase system and to usage of solvers for partial differential equations for such systems with more or less completed programs

Instruction

The teaching is given in the form of lectures and seminars, teaching sessions, demonstrations, laboratory sessions and computer exercises.

Assessment

Written examination is organised at the end of the course 3 credits. For a Pass grade in the course, it is also required that the laboratory work and written assignments have been presented and approved 2 credits. The final grade corresponds to a weighed average of the included parts.