Bioprocess Engineering

Catalog description

This course is focused on fluid, heat and mass transfer processes for valuable bio-products such as bio-pharmaceuticals. In particular, this course reviews the topics of fluid mixing, heat transfer, mass transfer and a variety of unit operations (filtration, centrifugation, cell disruption, chromatography, etc.). The course includes several topics on fermenters/bioreactor design and downstream processing for cell culture operations. The course is intended to provide to the students with an understanding of transfer processes and an overview of the most common separation processes employed in bioengineering.