Advanced Course Downstream Processing

Initiative Description

The biotechnology department of TU Delft organizes advanced courses for scientists from industry and academia. The advanced course Downstream Processing presents the state of the art in DSP of biotechnological products. It provides knowledge of different techniques for solid-liquid separation, product release, refolding, concentration and purification of precious biotechnology products with a focus on the total integrated process. An international group of experts from both industry and academia will lecture to assure an optimal balance of practical knowledge and theoretical insight, which subsequently will be trained by exercises, into the quantitative engineering aspects of bioseparations.

Training Objectives

The challenge for biochemical engineers is to design compact and clean processes to efficiently separate instable products, such as recombinant proteins, from dilute complex fermentation broths to the required pharmaceutical degree of purity. Therefore, the quantitative systematic design of integrated downstream processes is the general theme of this Advanced Course. The aim of the course is to provide the tools for the participants to be able to quantitatively and systematically design an integrated downstream process. This course has been organised since 1989.

Training Contents

The course starts with an overview of possibilities and problems typically associated with the recovery of bioproducts. Physico-chemical characteristics of the products, as well as the fermentation broth with its multiple contaminants, are discussed in relation to possibilities for selective separation. Using this information, the general structure of large scale industrial processes will be outlined. The thermodynamical basics and biochemical engineering principles will be introduced and developed during the course related to bio-separations. Special attention will be paid to the unit operations typically used in this field of industry. Firstly, various solid-liquid separation techniques and cell disruption will be treated. Particular consideration will be given to the application of major concentration techniques such as extraction, adsorption and membrane separation. Furthermore, the scientific and industrial aspects of purification by means of precipitation and chromatography will be discussed. In addition, the release of intracellular products as well as protein folding in industrial protein processes will be discussed. Process integration is the binding element in the course. During the course, a case study on the design of an integrated purification process for a recombinant protein will offer the participants the opportunity to practice on the individual unit operations as well as on the integrated process. Finally, possibilities of computer-aided, rational design of integrated separation processes will be demonstrated.

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Details

Website

[email protected]

Date: 3 – 7 July 2023

Durations: 3-5 days

Price: Various prices

Project

Delft University of Technology

Countries where training is provided

Netherlands

Cities where training is provided

Delft

Languages this training can be provided

English

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