Focus Areas

Topics/Themes to be discussed:

• Microbial cells growth and product formation kinetics: yield and productivity
• The critical components of an industrial bioreactor
• Determination of  critical parameters for fermentation process
• The importance of mixing and aeration: Mass transfer
• Scale-up of fermentation processes
• Sterilization of fermentation equipment
• Fundamentals of downstream processing for biochemical product recovery
• Examining traditional unit operations, as well as new concepts and emerging technologies that are likely to benefit biochemical product recovery in the future
• Design and operation of unit processes with centrifugation, chromatography, filtration, and membrane processes