Biochemical Engineering Lab I

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Students, working in pairs/groups, will undertake and report (via technical reports, posters and/or oral presentations) on selected experiments relating to the following topics: - Distillation: pilot-scale batch distillation with reflux, laboratory-scale solvent swap distillation - Fermentation: laboratory-scale batch yeast fermentation - Chromatography: chromatographic-based techniques for separation and/or analytical appications - Stirred Tank Reactors (STR): characterisation of mixing and mass transfer in standard configuration stirred tank reactors - Air-Lift Reactors (ALR): characterisation of hydroynamics and mixing in an air-lift reactor, operating in bubble colum and external-loop ALR mode. - Evaporation: performance of single-effect and triple-effect evaporation systems - Membrane filtration: water purification via osmosis.