Bioprocess Engineering
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Bioprocess Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Bioprocess Engineering (subject code 3723020) as prescribed for CE · Semester 2 divides the course into 4 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3723020)Unit 1 Kinetics of Enzyme Catalyzed Reaction The Enzyme Substrate Complex and Enzyme
- Simple Enzyme kinetics with one and two substrates
- Determination of Elementary Step Rate Constants
- Other patterns of substrate concentration dependence
- Modulation and Regulation of Enzymatic Activity
- Other Influences on enzyme activity
- Enzyme deactivation
- Enzyme reactions in Heterogeneous systems
Unit 2 Kinetics of Substrate Utilization, Product Formation, Biomass Production in Cell Cultures
- Ideal Reactors for kinetics measurements
- Stoichiometry and kinetics of Balanced Growth
- Transient growth kinetics
- structured kinetic models
- product formation kinetics
- Segregated kinetic models of Growth and Product Formation
- Thermal Death kinetics of Cells and Spores
Unit 3 Transport Phenomena in Bioprocess Systems Gas Liquid Mass transfer in cellular systems,
- determination of oxygen transfer rates
- mass transfer for freely rising or falling bodies
- forced convection mass transfer
- overall KLa estimates and power requirements for sparged and agitated vessels
- Mass transfer across free surfaces
- other factors affecting Kla, Scaling of Mass transfer equipment
- Heat Transfer
- Sterilization of Gases and liquids
Unit 4 Design and Analysis of Biological Reactors
- Ideal reactors
- reactor dynamics
- reactors with non-ideal mixing
- sterilization reactors
- immobilized biocatalysts
- multiple Subject Code: 3723020 w.e.f