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Characteristics of industrial microorganisms: biochemical diversity, overflow metabolism, enzyme production.
Isolation and improvement of organisms: isolation techniques, strain selection, improvement of organisms by
rational and random approaches, breeding programmes and protoplast fusion.
Fermentation Processes: media design, inoculate development, fermenter or design, fermentation instrumentation and control and scale-up.
Analysis of process efficiency: batch, fed-batch and continuous culture.
Downstream Processing: harvesting, fermentation broth extraction and purification of products.
Microbial products: antibiotics, enzymes, single cell protein etc.

Fermentation Technology Principles - 7101BTBMOL

Fermentation Technology Principles

Synthesise knowledge of the biochemistry of industrially important organisms and their products.

Design a fermentation process from strain selection and improvement to product recovery and purification.

Compare practical fermenters and appreciate the need for instrumentation and control.

Construct and operate small scale and pilot plant fermentation equipment.