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Archived Version 2010 - 2011
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Assume that a 5 credit module load represents approximately 75 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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MALTING AND BREWING Unit Operations of Malting and Brewing - malting operations (steeping, germination and kilning); the water of brewing centres; milliing; mashing (infusion-, decoction-, double- and temperature programmed-); solid adjuncts; hops; wort boiling; cooling and aeration; yeast propagation; course of batch fermentation (ale, stout and lager); continuous fermentation; fermenter design; control of fermentation; post fermentation treatments (fining, secondary fermentation, filtration); pasteurisation and packaging; flavour development; yeast and barley strain development; quality control.MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGYIndustrial Scale Production and Recovery of Microbial Products - small, medium and large scale processes; typical product concentrations leaving fermenters; strategies and equipment involved in the production and recovery of the following products: antibiotics, enzymes, industrial alcohol, organic acids, single cell protein, microbial polysaccharides and amino acids.PRODUCTION OF RECOMBINANT PRODUCTS Regulatory and safety regulations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Essential: Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology Handbook B. Atkinson & F. Mavituna Macmillan 1991The Biotechnology of Malting and Brewing J.S. Hough Cambridge University Press 1985Industrial Enzymology T. Godfrey & J. Reichelt Macmillan 1983Principles of Biotechnology A. Wiseman Chapman & Hall 1983 Supplementary: Basic Biotechnology J. Bu'Lock & B. Kristiansen Academic Press 1987Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals J. Bailey & D. Ollis McGraw-Hill 1986An Introduction to Brewing Science and Technology Institute of Brewing 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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AS | BSc in Analytical Science | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BSSA | Study Abroad (DCU Business School) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BSSAO | Study Abroad (DCU Business School) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BT | BSc in Biotechnology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECSA | Study Abroad (Engineering & Computing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ECSAO | Study Abroad (Engineering & Computing) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HMSA | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HMSAO | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SHSA | Study Abroad (Science & Health) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SHSAO | Study Abroad (Science & Health) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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