| Type: | Open University
Language: Danish |
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Previous course: C3001
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No credit points with: C3001,91561
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Prerequisite: C3201/24001.C3600/C3601/36100
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Recommended semester: 6th semester
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Scope and form: 2 lecture modules including problem solving per week.
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Examination: Report and written exam The mark for the report and the written exam count for 25% and 75%, respectiely. Both the report and the written exam should be passed. (13-scale)
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| Contact person: | Lisbeth Olsson, Building 223, Tel. +45 4525 2677, email lo@ibt.dtu.dk |
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Department: Department of Biotechnology
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Aim: To give the students a general knowledge of the methods and principles that are important for fermentation processes and thereby enable them to use this knowledge in connection with design of industrial fermentation processes.
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Contents: Technologically important microorganims. Screening. Mutagenisis. Storage of pure cultures. Technologically exploited microbial pathways. Substrates. Primary metabolites (alcohols, acids etc.). Secondary metabolites (antibiotics, hormones, enzymes etc.). Typical microbial reactions (oxidation, reduction, hydrolysis etc.). Fermentation physiology in relation to product fermentation. Fermentors. Instrumentation and fermentation plants. Industrial fermentation processes and technologies. Submerged cultures. Fermentation with recombinant organisms. Propagation and inoculation. Fermentation principles in food production. Kinetics of fermentation processes: Batch, continuous and fed-batch. Economic aspects in design of fermentation processes. Bioethics.
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