Chemische Biotechnologie

Introduction on industrial and environmental biotechnology; use of enzymes, pure cultures, mixed cultures; importance of biomass and sustainability

Nutrients needed for growth of microorganisms

Stoichiometry of microbial conversions according to mass balances

Hyperbolic kinetics for substrate uptake

Herbert-Pirt distribution of substrate between growth, product formation and maintenance; relations between cell mass-specific rates (mu and q)

Black-box model for aerobic and anaerobic product formation

Determination of the black-box model parameters from batch and chemostat experiments

The fermentor, and determination of relevant transport rates

Design of fermentation in batch and chemostat

Energy conversion pathways

Deriving the product pathway reaction

Deriving the biomass reaction

Microbial competition; application in mixed cultures

Designing enzymatic conversions