Integrated Process Design
Code: 43327 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4314579 Biological and Environmental Engineering | OB | 1 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Teresa Gea Leiva
- Email:
- teresa.gea@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
Teachers
- Adriana Artola Casacuberta
- Alfred Fernandez Castane
Prerequisites
None
Objectives and Contextualisation
The learning objectives therefore include identifying and applying criteria (techno economic and environmental) and different approaches to define/select optimal sequences of operations for biotechnological and environmental processes, as well as their integration into biorefineries, with special emphasis in the separation operations and strategies for process intensification.
Competences
- Apply methods, tools and strategies to develop biotechnological processes and products with energy-saving and sustainability criteria.
- Apply specific methodologies, techniques and resources to conduct research and produce innovative results in the area of biological and environmental engineering.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Define and design the characteristic separation sequences in chemical, biotechnological and environmental processes in order to increase separation yields, applying criteria of energy optimisation.
- Integrate and use chemical, environmental and/or biological engineering tools to design biological systems for the sustainable processing of waste and/or for industrial biotechnological processes.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Organise, plan and manage projects.
- Seek out information in the scientific literature using the appropriate channels and integrate this information, showing a capacity for synthesis, analysis of alternatives and critical debate.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Use IT tools to acquire further knowledge in the field of biological and environmental engineering.
- Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
- Work in a multidisciplinary team.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse separation operations in biotechnological and environmental processes, solving design and operation problems.
- Apply specific methodologies, techniques and resources to conduct research and produce innovative results in the area of biological and environmental engineering.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of the different separation sequences in sustainable waste treatment and in industrial biotechnological processes.
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Integrate the different stages of a process, choosing the appropriate alternative sequencing.
- Optimise processes in terms of energy-use on the basis of an integrated analysis.
- Organise, plan and manage projects.
- Seek out information in the scientific literature using the appropriate channels and integrate this information, showing a capacity for synthesis, analysis of alternatives and critical debate.
- Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Use IT tools to acquire further knowledge in the field of biological and environmental engineering.
- Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
- Use material transfer criteria in the design of continuous-contact separation operations.
- Work in a multidisciplinary team
Content
Unit 1: Introduction. Integrated process design and process intensification concepts. Biorefinery concept.
Unit 2: Bioreactors and operation. Industry 4.0.
Unit 3: Separation operation in biotechnolgical and environmental process engineering. Classification, equipment and use. Calculation methods for design of separation operations.
Unit 4: Integrated design of biotechnological and environmental processes. Design of biorefineries. Case studies.
Unit 5: Process intensification. Resources (energy, water, feedstocks) optimisation and waste minimization. Case studies.
Methodology
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Exercise-based and case study-based teaching | 12 | 0.48 | 1, 2, 9, 4, 6, 15, 14 |
| Lectures | 27 | 1.08 | 4, 6, 7, 5, 3, 13, 14 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Problem solving and work on case study | 32 | 1.28 | 1, 2, 9, 4, 6, 5, 3, 13, 15, 14 |
| Study | 62 | 2.48 | 5, 3 |
Assessment
Please refer to the Catalan or Spanish version of this document
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Final exam (individual) | 40% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 4, 6, 7, 5, 10, 3, 13, 14 |
| Participation in class and activities | 20% | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 2, 9, 4, 6, 7, 3, 15, 14 |
| Presentation and discussion case study | 20% | 2 | 0.08 | 11, 1, 4, 6, 7, 5, 3, 13, 14 |
| Written report case study | 20% | 8 | 0.32 | 2, 9, 4, 6, 8, 5, 3, 13, 15, 12 |
Bibliography
Integrated Bioprocess Engineering https://app.knovel.com/web/toc.v/cid:kpIBE0002U/viewerType:toc//root_slug:integrated-bioprocess-engineering?kpromoter=marc
Industrial Biotechnology: Products and Processes. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527807833
Continuous Biomanufacturing ‐ Innovative Technologies and Methods. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9783527699902
Other resources
Software
No specific software used