To provide the students hands-on experience with pilot-scale microbial cultivations and with a more profound and advanced perspective on industrial fermentation applications. En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:

• Apply fermentation technology and bioprocess theoretical knowledge on practical experimental problems
• Plan and implement fermentation experiments in pilot-scale
• Suggest strategies for monitoring of fermentation processes
• Quantitatively and qualitatively determine characteristics of a fermentation process
• Evaluate experimental data using simple mathematical models
• Relate experimental data to information found in scientific literature
• Reflect on challenges in process efficiency related to operational parameters and scaling-up of bioprocesses
• Report and present findings and conclusions in a well-structured manner

Students will plan and perform an open-ended, practical fermentation process exercise in groups. Based on considerate calculations on generated data combined with data found in scientific literature the students will evaluate and conclude on the performance of the fermentation process tested and discuss possible process optimization strategies. The course will also deal specifically with monitoring techniques and challenges in scaling-up of bioprocesses. The course will be focused on selected processes, which may include e.g. production of biofuels, biogas, baker´s yeast, enzymes and antibiotics. Both processes based on pure production cultures and processes based on microbial consortia may be considered. The group work will be summarized in a written report, which forms the basis for the oral examination. 26. april, 2018