Syllabus

Module I
Introduction. Review on biological Processes.
Module II
Enzyme kinetics: First and order second order reactions Enzyme inhibition multi-substrate enzyme kinetics Multisite allosteric enzyme kinetics
Module III
Enzyme immobilization Heterogeneous biochemical reaction systems, Reaction rates for immobilised enzymes,
Module IV
Heterogeneous system kinetic models for cell growth and product formation: unstructured, chemically structured and metabolic models.
Module V
Transport phenomena in bioprocess. Bioreactor design and analyses

To analyze reaction kinetics and reactor systems involved in complex enzyme kinetics

reaction kinetics and reactor systems involved in complex enzyme kinetics

To analyze the reaction kinetics and various fermenter systems involving multicomponent, multiphase microbial cell kinetics

To analyze transport phenomena involved in bioprocess. Bioreactor design & analysis, and scale up

The students will be able..
1. To learn and analyse the reaction kinetics and reactor systems involved in complex enzyme kinetics
2. To analyze reaction kinetics and reactor systems involved in complex enzyme kinetics
3. To calculate the complex microbial growth kinetics and evaluate the performance of different bioreactor/fermenter systems.
4. To design and analyze bioreactor, and to scale up the bioreactor systems.

J. E. Bailey and D. F. Ollis, Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. New York

Irwin H Segel, Biochemical Calculations, Wiley and sons

P. M. Doran, Bioprocess Engineering principles, Academic Press,

M. L. Shuler and F. Kargi, Bioprocess Engineering- Basic concepts, Prentice Hall,