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Courses - Fall 2024
CHBE
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Open Seats as of
12/30/2024 at 11:30 AM
CHBE693
(Perm Req)
Chemical Processes in Beer Brewing
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in CHBE424 and CHBE440; and permission of instructor.
Restriction: Must be in a major within the ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department; and permission of ENGR- & Biomolecular Engineering department.
Jointly offered with: CHBE493.
Credit only granted for: CHBE493 or CHBE693.
Additional information: Neither the students nor the instructor will be making or working with alcoholic beverages in the course.
Covers chemical engineering principles and chemical processes involved in the brewing and quality control of beer. Topics will include extraction and isomerization of bittering compounds from hops, enzymatic reactions involved in mashing beer, colloidal chemistry of haze formation, and microbiology of yeast and fermentation. Quantitative models will be applied to these processes based on fundamental chemical engineering principles from reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and colloid and interfacial science.