Bioprocess Engineering: Principles and Applications

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Future advances in bioprocess engineering will extend the leading edge of biotechnology and spur crucial developments in biomedicine, chemical reaction engineering and materials science. This course covers the basic biochemical engineering concepts underlying the behavior of biopro-cesses. Topics include enzyme kinetics and biocatalysis, microbial growth and product formation, bioreactor design, transport in bioreactors, and bioproduct recovery. In the final part of the course we examine re-cent applications in industrial enzyme catalysis, immobilized enzymes and cells, and production of therapeutic proteins.