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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Bioengineering I - AM319004
Title: Bioengineering I
Guaranteed by: Department of Biotechnology (319)
Faculty: Faculty of Food and Biochemical Technology
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: 15 / 15 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Halecký Martin doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : M319004, N319008
Is interchangeable with: M319004
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course focuses on understanding and quantitative description of biological processes in the context of their implementation under defined conditions enabling to achieve reproducibility of results. The syllabus is based on the principles of kinetics, balancing as well as measurement and regulation of biological processes, including the design of the equipment.
Last update: Halecký Martin (16.09.2023)
Course completion requirements -

Credit for attending lectures and exercises (at least 60%).

1-hour exam written test (rated at least 50%).

Last update: Halecký Martin (21.02.2025)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • Moo-Young M.. Comprehensive Biotechnology. : Elsevier, 2019, s. ISBN 9780444640475.
  • Katoh S., Horiuchi J., & Yoshida F.. Biochemical Engineering: A Textbook for Engineers, Chemists and Biologists. : Wiley-VCH, 2015, s. ISBN 9783527338047 .
  • Meyer H.-P., & Schmidhalter D. . Industrial Scale Suspension Culture of Living Cells. : Wiley-VCH, 2014, s. ISBN 978-3-527-68335-2.

Last update: prepocet_literatura.php (19.12.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction to the subject. Structure of the biotechnological process in terms of unit operations.

2. Engineering aspects of the use of intact cells and enzymes. Overview of products.

3. Parameters for describing of cell cultivation. Process yield and productivity. Overview of cultivation methods.

4. Equipment and unit operations for upstream operations - sterilization of liquid medium and bioreactor, SIP station, filtration and sterilization of gases.

5. Batch cultivation - characteristics, mass balance, use.

6. Fed-batch cultivation - characteristics, feeding strategy, mass balance, use.

7. Semi-continuous and continuous cultivation - characteristics, process control methods, use.

8. Continuous cultivation - mass balance, comparison with batch cultivations, process modifications.

9. Aeration and oxygen transfer – implementation of aeration, mechanism of oxygen transfer, mass balance.

10. Mixing – types of mixing in biotechnology, specifics of mixing in bioreactors.

11. Bioreactors – classification, design, use; pneumatically and mechanically stirred aerated bioreactors.

12. Bioreactors – specific types: photobioreactors, membrane bioreactors, reactors for tissue cultures, reactors for biotechnology in waste management and the environment.

13. Measured and controlled parameters in cell cultivation. Control of bioprocesses – control loops, types of controllers, control variables.

14. Equipment and unit operations for downstream operations – cleaning, CIP station, conventional separation technology, cell disintegration, membrane separation.

Last update: Halecký Martin (21.02.2025)
Learning resources -

https://e-learning.vscht.cz/course/view.php?id=455

Last update: Halecký Martin (16.09.2023)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

Understand the biological, chemical and engineering processes in the biotechnology industry

Describe and evaluate basic biocatalytic processes.

Quantitatively evaluate experimental data of processes catalyzed by biological elements and to carry out heat and mass balances of biotechnological processes.

Design mixing and aeration equipment of bioreactors.

Last update: Halecký Martin (16.09.2023)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0.2 6
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.5 14
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.8 50
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
4 / 4 112 / 112
 
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