Biochemical Reactor Design
- Introduction to course topics.
- Yields in cell culture
- Three different ways of expressing reaction rates
- Calculating biochemical/cellular reaction rates from experimental data
- General reaction kinetics for biological systems
- Microbial growth kinetics (batch growth-balanced growth-effect of substrate)
- Kinetics of product formation and substrate utilisation in cell culture--Effect of maintenance on yields
- Batch operation of a mixed bioreactor
- Fed Batch operation of a mixed bioreactor
- Kinetic modelling of cell growth
- Biochemical reactions using immobilized enzymes: Introduction-Concentration gradients and reaction rates in bioreactor with spherical biocatalysts
- Biochemical reactions using immobilized enzymes: Internal mass transfer and reaction
- Biochemical reactions using immobilized enzymes: Thiele modulus and effectiveness factor
- Biochemical reactions using immobilized enzymes: External mass transfer
- Continuous operation of a mixed bioreactor
- Stoichiometry of growth and product formation
- Heat production in microbial cell growth