Design of Biotechnical Process and Production Systems, Project Course

Aim

Obtain engineering skills to analyze and perform design of industrial biotech tools, process and production systems, as well as assess and evaluate production and process economy conditions. After the course, the student must be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to work result-oriented in a project group with production and process technical tasks, that are consistent with requirements and working methods in an advanced biotechnical industry.
• Present an overall development plan for a design assignment, based on an intention document (order) from a company. Document overall target specifications, conditions, design alternatives and boundaries for the assignment.
• Obtain and evaluate information that is relevant for the design and operation of an industrial biotechnological process and production system. Based on this information, perform calculations for operations of the process, prioritize between alternatives, verify relevance and credibility in claims, and criticize the information.
• Use Biomechatronic methods to assess the conditions for an industrial biotechnological production system, and draw conclusions regarding its functional design.
• Provide realistic technical solutions for the production system for a biotechnological product, including the biotechnological process steps to meet regulatory requirements and quality management systems.
• Analyze the economic and operational conditions of the biotechnological production system.

Content

The project group will at course start recieve a description of the assignment, including guide lines for CDIO-projects. The project assignment shall deliver detailed results regarding:

• Implementation of the project work
• The needs of the client company
• Overall development plan for the design work (UPG1)
• Design of operational solution (PRA2)
• Quality assurance
• Final reporting to the client, including a final report covering approximately 17 pages, excluding notes, references and appendices.