Bioprocess Recovery and Purification (BENG0101)

The major unit operations are discussed with respect to fundamental principles of operation, typical equipment (emphasising equipment that can be used at production scale), basic quantitative design equations, and overall design considerations including throughput, cost, and robustness. Examples of such unit operations include:

Filtration: membrane-based filters (run in dead-end and cross-flow modes), depth filters.
	Centrifugation: disc-stack centrifuges, tubular bowl centrifuges.
	Cell disruption: focused on scalable techniques, including homogenisation and bead mills.
	Liquid-liquid extraction: cross-flow and countercurrent-flow cascades.
	Chromatography: affinity chromatography.
Scale-up and scale-down methodology will be introduced to facilitate design. A brief introduction to process integration completes the course, including compatibility of various unit operations, and fundamental trade-offs (such as yield-purity and purity-cost).

Aims

To provide undergraduate students with experience of advanced study and life in an approved European or Overseas academic institution.

Students will...

Biochemical Engineering Study Abroad (BENG0071)

Aims

To provide undergraduate students with experience of advanced study and life in an approved European or Overseas academic institution.

Students will undertake a study programme at the host institution comprised of:

research or design project,
	graduate level biochemical (or process) engineering courses,
	senior level technical elective courses (e.g. science, maths etc.),
	free elective courses.
Approximately equal workload (e.g. credit hours) should be assigned to each of the above areas. Detailed arrangements will vary between the various host institutions but should not differ significantly from the above. The total workload, including contact hours, private study and assessment, should be equivalent to that of a normal full-time student in the host institution. Selection of the above courses is subject to the approval of the host institution and UCL’s exchange scheme co-ordinator.