Biotechnology for Sustainable Processes

Full course description

This course aims at completing and integrating the insights acquired during the programme and especially of the previous courses in the concentration Sustainable Biotechnology. In this course, you analyse known industrial examples of sustainable manufacturing practices as case studies. For example, you identify the potential impact of protein or metabolic engineering on the overall improvement of a production process, you understand the importance of using dedicated software for flow sheeting and process simulation to solve mass and energy balances of bioprocesses, and you see how waste and bleed streams can be effectively recycled. As a major part of this course, you have to propose a biotechnology-based approach to increase the sustainability of a process of your choice.