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The module provides students with an engineering foundation in the principles of engineering analysis and design. Focus is on the introduction to relationships between material properties and behaviour in (bio)process environment. The cover concepts are key to the understanding of the performance of processes for the manufacture of biologically-based products and for the specification and design of overall process sequences.
Upon completion of the course, a student should be able to:
- Mathematically analyse and interpret given experimental data analysis of a fluid in a viscometer and provide a physical explanation of the results obtained.
- Design a generic pipe network based on specifications and constraints and verify the assumptions made and quantify the pump requirements.
- Analyse and design a complete chromatography system based on fluid flow specifications.
- Calculate the power input required for agitation in a stirred-tank fermenter under a range of operating conditions.
- Define conditions for the successful scale-up or scale-down of a fermentation process for different biological systems.
- Characterise the different stages of a fermentation process and execute simple mass and energy balances.
- Perform simple mass balances around key unit operations.
- Analyse the major mechanism of chromatographic separation used at industrial scale.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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