Counselling JEE Adv – Biochemical Engineering & Bio-Technology @ IITD
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This branch is not concerned with human biology at all as many might perceive. The major two divisions of this branch are:
1) Biochemical Engineering: This basically deals with the design, optimization and construction of bioreactors that involve biological organisms or molecules
2) Biotechnology: This mainly involves application of pure sciences i.e Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Enzymes, Bionanotechnology etc.
On the whole it is concerned with Research & development of various microbial and enzyme system and developing understanding of biological / biochemical phenomena underlying such systems. As a biochemical engineer, you are expected to undertake industrial consultancy jobs to solve the specific problems of bioprocess industries. For example you might be asked to give dimensions to a chromatography column i.e. column diameter, column height or you might be asked to scale-up (increase the volume many times) a bioreactor from lab scale to industrial scale.
