Bioprocess Engineering

Dr. Shijie Liu is a professor of bioprocess engineering at the State University of New York – College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF), Syracuse, NY, USA. His contributions include volume averaging in porous media, kinetics of reactions on solid surfaces, cooperative adsorption theory, the theory of interactive enzymes, and the kinetic modeling of polyauxic growth / fermentation. Much of his childhood was spent in the country side of Sichuan Province in China, finished high school in 1978 from Luxi High School, in a little town just a few kilometers away from his home of birth. He graduated from Chengdu University of Science and Technology (now merged into Sichuan University) with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering in 1982. His early career started in the chemical industrial city of Lanzhou, China before moving to Canada. He obtained his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta in 1992 under Prof. Jacob H. Masliyah. Since then, he worked in the University of Alberta and Alberta Research Council before joining SUNY ESF in 2005. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications today and maintains strong collaborations with colleagues in China from various universities. He taught a variety of courses including transport phenomena, numerical methods, mass transfer, chemical kinetics, pulp and paper technology, colloids and interfaces, chemical reaction engineering, bioreaction engineering, bioprocess kinetics and systems engineering, bioefinery processes, advanced biocatalysis, advanced bioprocess kinetics, and bioprocess engineering. Dr. Liu currently serves as the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy, as well as the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery.

Part I: Fundamentals

1. What is Bioprocess Engineering?

2. An Overview of Biological Basics

3. An Overview of Chemical Reaction Analysis

4. Batch Reactor

5. Ideal Flow Reactors



Part II: Kinetics and Molecular Interactions

6. Kinetic Theory and Reaction Kinetics

7. Enzymes

8. Chemical Reactions on Solid Surfaces

9. Protein-Ligand Interactions

10. Molecular Regulation

Part III: Cells: Function and Manipulations

11. Cell Metabolism

12. Evolution and Genetic Engineering

Part IV: Cultivation and Fermentation

13. How Cells Grow

14. Cell Cultivation

Part V: Bioprocess System and Reaction Engineering

15. Sustainability and Stability

16. Combustion, Reactive Hazard and Bioprocess Safety

17. Mass Transfer Effects: Immobilized and Heterogeneous Reaction Systems

Part VI: Reactor Engineering and Quality Design

18. Bioreactor Design & Operation

19. Real Reactors and Residence Time Distributions

20. Design of Experiment