COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOLID STATE FERMENTATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYT 6003 SOLID STATE FERMENTATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR LEMAN TARHAN

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

This course aims to understand basics of solid state fermentation, solid state fermentation substrates, factors affecting this fermentation and its kinetics, fermentor designment and production of some enzymes, proteins, organic acids, pigments, etc. having biotechnological importance in solid state fermentation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   This course is expected to help the student to understand what the solid state fermentation and its basics, advantages and disadvantages are,
2   to learn how is the modeling of the solid state fermentation,
3   to develop the students analytical abilities
4   to develop the students ability to present and criticise knowledge on solid state fermentation,
5   to give students further examples how the enzymes, organic acids, vitamins are produced by this system.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The history and development of the solid-state fermentation
2 Basics of solid-state fermentation -Definition, Characteristics, Limitations, and Monitoring of Solid-state Fermentation
3 Effecting Factors on the Solid-State Fermentation -Physicochemical Factors -Biochemical Factors
4 Modeling of Solid-State Fermentation -The basic principles -Solid-state fermentation kinetics
5 Modeling of Solid-State Fermentation -The basic principles -Solid-state fermentation kinetics
6 Energy and Mass Transfer, Water Activity on Solid State Fermentation Process
7 Fermentors on Solid-state Fermentation -The basic principles of solid-state fermentor and scale-up -Fermentor types, selection and design -The Effecting Factors on The Function of The Fermentor
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Application of Tropical Agroindustrial Residues as Substrate for Solid-state Fermentation Processes -Substrate selection and preparation
10 Solid-state fermentation production of industrial enzymes -Lipases, cellulases, hemisellulases, amylases -Ligninolitic enzymes
11 Production of organic acids in solid-state fermentation
12 Production of Commercially and Industrially Important Secondary Metabolites with the Technology of Solid-State Fermentation and Their Biotechnological Applications
13 -Fungi and Single-cell Protein Production by Solid State Fermentation -Various Biotechnological Applications of Solid-State Fermentation: Pigment, Flavor, and Other Products
14 Homework and Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Roussos S., Lonsane B.K., Raimbault M., Viniegra-Gonzalez G. (eds), Advances in Solid State Fermentation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2010.
Supplementary Book(s): Pandey A., Soccol C.R., Larroche C. (eds), Current Developments in Solid-State Fermentation, Springer, 2010.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Question-answer technique
3. Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, homework and presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
raziye.urek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30 - 15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 35 35
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparing Homework and Presentations 1 35 35
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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