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Courses Handbook 2015

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CHEN5019 (v.1) Special Topics Bioprocessing

Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 309301 (v.2) Special Topics Bioprocessing 571 or any previous version
Anti Requisite(s): 307446 (v.3) Biochemical Engineering 471 or any previous version
AND
CHEN4005 (v.1) Biochemical Engineering or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Introduction, cultivation, batch and continuous reactors, solid-state fermentations, scale-up of bioreactors, instrumentation and control, sterilisation of process fluids, recovering and purifying products, integration of reaction and separation, structure and biochemistry of animal cells, products of animal cell cultures, plant cells in culture, bioreactors for suspension cultures and organised tissues, influence of product on process design, choosing host-vector systems and genetic instability.
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark


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