Course code:
415S2		 Course name:
Environmental Biotechnology

Academic year:

2023/2024.

Attendance requirements:

409A2

ECTS:

6

Study level:

basic academic studies

Study program:

Environmental Chemistry: 4. year, winter semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Jelena Z. Radosavljeviæ, Ph.D.
assistant professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistant:

Aleksa D. Saviæ
graduate researcher, Innovation center, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures + three hours of labwork (3+0+3)

Goals:

To introduce students to the basics biotechnology, its current capabilities and potentials. Students will learn concepts of bio-assay and how they can be used in monitoring, but also in bioremediation of ecologically vulnerable sistems.

Outcome:

Preparing students for independent study of pollution problems and protect the endangered environment and proposing effective solutions for environmental protection, with modern microbiological and phyto-remediation. As well as preparing students for scientific-research work.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, tutorial,experimental and seminar work.

Extracurricular activities:

Formation maps of pollution in Serbia, the intensity and type.

Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  • H-J. Jordening, J. Winter: Environmental biotechnology - concepts and applications, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2005.

Supplementary coursebooks:

  • C. Ratledge, B. Kristiansen (editors): Basic biotechnology, 3rd ed, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

1-2. Fundamentals of microbiology and biotechnology.

3. Principles of biological interventions in the environment.

4. Principles of biochemical engineering.

5-6 biotechnology aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment with the organic load.

7. Biotechnological treatment of waste water with inorganic load.

 

8. Biogeotechnology and biocorrosion.

9. Removal of xenobiotics from water applying soluble and immobilized biocatalyst.

 

10. Bioremediation of contaminated land.

11. Phytoremediation technology.

12. Aerobic and anaerobic biotechnology processing of solid waste.

13. Application of genetically modified organisms in environmental biotechnology.

14. Integrated environmental biotechnology.

15. Biotechnology and sustainable development.

Labwork:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

1-2. The basic approach to working with microorganisms.

3-4. Aerobic degradation of organic pollutants.

5-6. Anerobic degradation of organic pollutants.

7. Oxidation and precipitation of heavy metals in the bioreactor.

8. Removal of phenol from water by applying the enzyme.

9. Removal of urea from water by applying the enzyme.

10-11. Biohydrometallurgy.

12-14. Bioremediation of soil contaminated with oil and its products.

15. Preventing biofouling film development.

Written exam:

50 points

Tutorial:

30 points