SLE718 - Green Chemistry and Industrial Bioprocessing

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Offering information:

Available from 2025

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong)

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Wenrong Yang
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

8 x 2 hour seminars per trimester, 3 x 2 hour practical experiences (field trips) per trimester.

Content

Green chemistry is a branch of chemistry focused on the generation of useful chemical products and processes that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances. Bioprocessing is any process that uses biological components or whole cells to achieve the production of certain desired products like proteins or metabolites. A transition to green chemistry is required to reduce the global environmental burden of the chemical industry; and green chemistry relies heavily on knowledge of biological catalysts and bioprocessing more generally and so these two themes work hand-in-glove. Examples of green chemistry and industrial bioprocessing include waste handling, biofuel production, vaccine production, food processing and antibody production. In this unit, students will learn the principles of green chemistry and bioprocessing. Students will attend field visits and guest presentations to learn industry best practices.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Understand principles of sustainability, green chemistry and incorporating these to evaluating the environmental impact of chemical and biotechnology activities.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Explain the process of bioprospecting and design experiments to identify metabolites, genes and proteins with specific characteristics.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

ULO3

Understand and apply the principles of bioprocessing, including feedstocks, catalysis, fermentation, reaction engineering, biological production and product refining/purification. Use these principles to design process flows.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week

Assessment 1
Written report

Written scientific report, 1000-1500 words 20%

Week 4

Assessment 2
Artefact (Group)

Flexible open format artefact (may be in any format except a written report. E.g poster presentation, infographic, oral presentation, animation, brochure, factsheet, web page, animation, interview, podcast)
20% Week 7
Assessment 3
Online quiz
x 60-minute online quiz 10% Week 9
Assessment 4
Design project (Individual and Group)
Written bioprocess report with calculations and schematic diagrams, 1500-2000 words  50% (35%, 15%) (Individual, Group) End-of-Unit Assessment period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SLE718 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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