Section I: Engineering consideration in design and scale-up of bioreactors 1. Types of bioreactors and important design considerations 2. Immobilized cells bioreactors (types of immobilization and bioreactors) 3. Engineering aspects for scale-up of bioreactors
Section II: Control systems, optimization and artificial intelligence in industrial bioprocessing 4. Bioprocess monitoring and control systems 5. Modeling and simulation of bioreactor process 6. Online monitoring of process parameters during fermentation 7. Modern techniques for optimizing fermentation process parameters 8. Computational tools (CFD, COMSOL etc) in bioprocessing
Section III: Advanced upstream processing 9. Design and development of fermentation process (including suitability of experimental design: full factorial, central composite design, box behnken, plackett burman etc.) 10. Advances in fermentation processes (Batch, fed-batch and continuous) 11. Media preparation and sterilization techniques 12. Factors influencing microbial growth and its kinetics
Section IV: Advanced downstream processing 13. Sedimentation, filtration and centrifugation 14. Cell disruption and isolation 15. Unit operations (Extraction, purification, lyophilization and spray drying, etc.)