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BIOPROCESS DIGITAL PROFESSIONAL COURSES
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Simulation, scale-up and optimal operation of microbial fermentors

Microbial fermentation processes

ONLINE COURSE: On-demand

COURSE FEE: 300 € per session 

COURSE ORGANIZATION

Course organized in 9 sessions

Scheduling: suggested one seesion per week

Effort: 4 - 8 hours per session

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course teaches the kinetic analysis, the modeling-simulation, the scale-up and the optimal operation of fermentation processes.

The guiding thread of the course is a virtual R&D project on the glutamic acid fermentation. The objective is to use most efficiently a bacterial strain in an industrial 200 m3 fermentor, in order to reach the highest annual glutamate production

INSTRUCTOR​

  • Jean-Marc Engasser, BioProcess Digital

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN?​

  • Design and analyze experiments to determine the kinetics of microbial reaction and oxygen transfer

  • Construct fermentors simulation models 

  • Use process simulators to scale up and optimize the microbial fermentor in batch, continuous, and fed-batch modes for highest productivity or lowest production cost 

DIGITAL LEARNING​

  • Learning platform with course resources

  • Live or recorded slideshow videos

  • Fermentation project on spreadsheet templates with self-corrections and guides

  • Online collective or one-to-one tutoring

COURSE PROGRAM

SESSION 1: KINETIC ANALYSIS OF THE FERMENTATION

At the laboratory, evaluation of the rates of bacteria growth, sugar consumption, and metabolites production

SESSION 2: OXYGEN CONSUMPTION AND TRANSFER

At the laboratory, determination of the oxygen consumption rate, of the oxygen solubility and transfer rate 

SESSION 3: FERMENTATION MODELING-SIMULATION

Modeling-simulation of the bacteria growth and metabolism in the laboratory batch fermentor

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SESSION 4: BATCH FERMENTATION SCALE-UP AND PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION 

Scale-up of the fermentor simulation model. Optimization of the batch fermentation operation for highest production

SESSION 5: BATCH FERMENTATION COST OPTIMIZATION 

Economic evaluation of the fermentation process. Optimization of the batch fermentation for lowest production cost

SESSION 6: CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION OPTIMIZATION

Optimization the continuous fermentation for reduced co-metabolites production and lowest cost

SESSION 7: FED-BATCH FERMENTATIONS OPTIMIZATION

Optimization the fed-batch fermentation for reduced co-metabolites production and lowest cost

SESSION 8: FERMENTATION INTENSIFICATION BY OXYGEN-ENRICHED AIR

Optimization of the fed-batch fermentor, aerated with oxygen-enriched air, for increased production

SESSION 9: FERMENTATION INTENSIFICATION BY PERFUSION OPERATION

Optimization of the micro-filtration membrane fermentor, for increased production under perfusion operation

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