课程编号： 80050422
课程名称： 生物膜基础与应用Biofilms: fundamentals to applications
课程学时： 32
课程学分： 2
授课语言： 英文
课程介绍： 生物膜法是污水生物处理的主要技术之一。本课程针对具有一定环境工程与环境科学背景的研究生，围绕近年来生物膜研究的基础和热点问题，重点讲述生物膜的特性、反应过程与模型，以及生物膜技术与传感器技术等领域的发展对生物膜解析的带动作用以及对生物膜结构和功能不断深入的研究成果。课程首先讲述基于微生物学的生物膜降解动力学、生物膜传质动力学，介绍各向异性生物膜的结构、种群分布及功能特征，接着讲述了基于微电极技术的生物膜特性解析，继之介绍生物膜模型，分析悬浮态系统与固定态系统的特性，最后介绍生物膜法污水处理工艺。本课程还将介绍一些在该领域研究中活跃的团队和研究人员，并请同学们开展文献调研和汇报讨论，提高文献综述能力。课程还提供丰富的应用实例和生物膜污水处理工艺实地参观。通过课程学习，一方面可以掌握废水处理生物膜的生物降解动力学与传质动力学等基础知识，另一方面较为全面地了解生物技术与传感器技术等领域的发展对附着生长微生物系统解析的带动作用，以及基于此的生物膜研究的一些最新成果和进展，开拓研究视野。本课程是一门基础理论与实践兼顾的专业课程，能够为水污染治理、环境微生物等研究提供可借鉴的研究方法和技术手段。
Biofilms play an important role in the biological wastewater treatment process. This course relies on the fundamentals and hot-topics in biofilm studies, mainly introducing the characteristics, reaction mechanism and mathematical modeling of biofilms, and advances in biofilm studies and applications in wastewater treatment due to the drive functions in the fields of biotechnologies and sensor technologies. This course aims at the graduate students, who have basic backgrounds in the environmental engineering and science. This course will start with an introduction to biofilms, the biodegradation kinetics of biofilms and mass transport mechanism in the biofilms. Subsequently, this course will especially introduce the architecture, population structure and function of biofilms, then introduce the interpretation of biofilm characteristics based on the microelectrode technology. In the end, the course will cover the mathematical modeling of biofilm, its comparison with suspended microorganisms, and biofilm reactors used for wastewater treatment. The major researchers in biofilm studies will be mentioned in this course. Students will be required to do literature investigation aiming at on a selected researcher and/or topic related to biofilms and give a presentation at the end of the course. The course will provide abundant application cases and include a visit to a biofilm wastewater treatment plant.
Compared with the suspended-growth microorganisms, biofilms have their unique advantages in the removal of pollutants. This course aims at the graduate students with basic background of environmental engineering and science. Through the study of this course, they can on the one hand grasp the basic knowledge of biodegradation kinetics and mass transport mechanism of biofilm in wastewater treatment, and on the other hand, they can understand comprehensively the advances in the biotechnology and sensor techniques and their impact on the development of attached-growth microbial systems. Some recent achievements and progress in biofilm research will be introduced in this course for the purpose of expanding the vision of research. This course is a professional course that combines basic theory with practice. It can provide the referential research techniques and methods for water pollution control, environmental microorganisms and other researches.
