Separations in Biotechnology and Bioprocess Economy

Separations play an integral part of any biotechnological process. This course aims at enabling students from various backgrounds (process engineering, biotechnology) to select and design suitable separation processes for typical biotechnological products such as monoclonal antibodies, antibiotics, and fine chemicals.

The course will cover:

cell desintegration
centrifugation
membrane separarations
extractions
adsorption
chromatography
economics

Supporting material: The lecture slides will be provided as download on the homepage prior to the lecture (one day at the latest)
For some topics scripts are available

You can find the supporting material in the protected pagedownload section. This site is password protected and only accessible to enrolled students. The required credentials are given away in the first lecture.