Course overview
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to biopharmaceutical engineering, focusing on how complex biological products are manufactured at scale. It explores key concepts such as mass and energy balances, cell culture kinetics, and reactor engineering, and links these to real bioprocess operations including bioreactor design, upstream production, downstream purification, and full process integration. The course emphasises how fundamental engineering principles are applied to analyse, design, and optimise biopharmaceutical processes, preparing students to understand and evaluate modern industrial production systems.
Principles of biopharmaceitical processing
Bioreactor engineering
Unit operations and integrated processes
Course learning outcomes
- Apply knowledge of energy and mass transfer to Biopharmaceutical engineering
- Apply the mathematical principles of cell culture kinetics fermentation
- Apply the principles of operation of batch, fed-batch, and continuous to bioreactor regimes
- Recognise the role of key operational units in bioprocess engineering
- Apply process integration of unit operations for overall Biopharmaceutical processing