CE50265: Bioprocess engineering
[Page last updated: 09 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPG 50%, CWRG 50% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Lab Report (CWRG 50%)
- Presentation (CWPG 50%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, you will be able to:
- Explain processes and advanced technologies for the use of renewable resources in the production of chemicals, materials and fuels.
- Conceptualise complex bioprocesses and logistics chains.
- Compare alternative feedstocks, technologies and processes based on technical, economic, and environmental criteria/requirements.
- Apply experimental and modelling approaches to implement a scale up strategy for a chosen bioprocess.
- Evaluate the key technical, economic and environmental challenges and opportunities of biotechnology.
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| Synopsis: | You will develop knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals and the application of biobased technologies to current societal needs, selecting from alternative feedstocks, technologies and processes. Through a series of experimental, mathematical and computational tasks you will apply skills and knowledge to understand how biologically based technologies are developed and implemented.
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| Content: | - Bioprocesses to convert chemicals and to produce chemicals & materials
- Biological and chemical technologies for the conversion of renewable resources
- Biorefineries - principles and case studies
- Experimental and computational assessments of bioprocesses
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| Course availability: |
CE50265 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:
Department of Chemical Engineering
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
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