Bioprocess Kinetics

ECTS points:
6

Program:
diplomski

Course number:
53223; 53264

Course Description

COURSE CONTENT

  1. Reaction kinetics of uncatalyzed and catalyzed chemical reaction
  2. Simple, complex and multisubstrate enzyme kinetics
  3. Effect of temperature and pH on enzyme activity
  4. Characteristic (macroscopic) variable in bioprocesses. Basic unstructured kinetic models for growth of microorganism and substrate utilization in homogenous culture system
  5. Kinetic modelling of substrate-independent growth and kinetic modelling of endogenous metabolism and microbial death
  6. Substrate and product inhibition of microbial growth kinetics
  7. Multisubstrate growth kinetics of microorganism
  8. Kinetics of microbial product formation
  9. Growth kinetics of mixed populations, bioadsorption and kinetics of microbial growth and substrate utilization in heterogeneous culture systems
  10. Unstructured and structured kinetic models of microorganism growth and formation of product of metabolism

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of uncatalyzed and catalysed chemical reaction
  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of simple and complex enzyme reactions
  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of enzyme reaction in presence of different inhibitors
  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of microbial process in the absence and presence of inhibition
  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of microbial growth on multiple substrates
  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of different products of microbial metabolism
  • describe and estimate kinetic growth parameters of mixed populations
  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of pellet and mycelial filamentous growth, as well as  microbial growth in biofilm,
  • describe and estimate kinetic parameters of  heterogeneous  microbial processes
  • estimate parameters of unstructured and structured kinetic models of microbial processes
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