Description

Theory
1

Theory/Practice
3

Instructors

Luís Manuel Silva

Contents

1-Industrial Biotechnology
1.1-Market drivers
1.2-Raw materials in the biotechnology industry
1.3-Metabolic products
2-Industrial enzymes
2.1-Enzyme production technology
2.2-Strain improvement
2.3-Industrial applications of enzymes
2.4-Global enzyme market scenario
3-Industrial Biotechnology in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries
3.1-Biocatalytic processes: scientific and technological perspectives
3.2-Biocatalytic processes: trade and business perspectives
3.3-Organic acids production
3.4-White biotechnology in biosurfactants
4-Food and feed industry
4.1-Food applications
4.2-Food and feed applications
5-Environmental and economic aspects of industrial biotechnoloy
5.1-Methodology
5.2-Overall results
5.3-Conclusions

Learning Outcomes

O1-Identify renewable feedstocks and final products that can be produced by the biological path
O2-Recognize the added value in biotechnology with significative reduction of waste, energy and economic-saving, and consequent reduction of environmental impact.
O3-Identify potential surplus in production by improving strains used in fermentation processes.
O4-Describe biotechnological processes in the base chemicals, agrifood, pharmaceutical and energy industries.
O5-Apply a methodology that estimates the economic, social and environmental impacts of a biotechnological process.
O6-Develop contextual skills such as analysis and synthesis, writing in English, teamwork, effective communication and creative thinking.