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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

BIOT 6663 - Bioprocess Technology


Credit Hours: 3
This course will introduce students to principles, applications, and the potential of bioprocess technology. Primary focus for the classroom discussions will be on the processes and process variables, mass balances, energy balances, mole balances, conversion and reaction sizing, fermentation systems, downstream processing, heat transfer sterilization, bioreactor designs, and scale-up, microbial kinetics and bioreactor operations, and bioprocess unit operations for production of bioenergy / biofuels as well as other bioproducts.

Prerequisite(s): MATH 1111, MATH 1112, CHEM 1211, -1212K, PHYS 1111, PHYS 1112K, BIOL 4234K