Separations play an integral part of any biotechnological process. This course aims at enabling students specifically with a chemistry/biology background to select & roughly design suitable separation processes for typical biotechnological products such as monoclonal antibodies, antibiotics, and fine chemicals and at providing a basic set of purification operations & judge on process economy.
Objective
Students should be able to select for a given biotechnological product a suitable set of purification operations and judge on process economy.
Content
Introduction – membrane operations – adsorption and chromatography – crystallization – overall process economics –