Sustainable Bioprocess Technology

We teach you how to plan, build and operate processes and plants as efficiently and eco-friendly as possible and how to improve them through continuous evaluation and optimisation. We focus on the use of biocatalytic systems – using enzymes and microorganisms for product manufacture or in the degradation and utilisation of residual and waste materials.

With the help of the "Life Cycle Assessment" (LCA), you analyse the environmental impact throughout the entire life cycle of a product. For example, you will determine the CO2 footprint of a manufacturing process. And in the "Sustainable Business Administration" module, you'll learn how to think in both an ecologically sensible and economically profitable way. Make our economy fit for the bioeconomy of the future with sustainable processes!

We teach scientific work, the implementation of challenging development tasks and teamwork in our courses, many of which take the form of seminars. During the project semester, you'll be working independently to put the theoretical principles into practice in your research project. You decide for yourself whether you want to go in a technical or biological direction or work with industry.

At HFU, laboratory and pilot-scale investigations are possible. In our "Technikum" laboratory, you can carry out entire processes from production (upstream) to product purification (downstream). We can also work there with modern process analytics, for example in the form of HPLC (high-pressure liquid chromatography), GC (gas chromatography) and online measurements.