NLProcess Engineering Internship, Continuous Reactor Design
FarmlessAmsterdam
Farmed animal welfareCultivated meat and plant-based proteinEngineeringResearch
Why this is on the board
Whether protein from fermentation ever becomes cheap enough to replace meat and dairy from livestock farming seems to depend largely on one technical question: can you run production continuously rather than in separate batches? In this internship you build such a continuous reactor from lab set-up to pilot, and what you document becomes the starting point for everyone who scales the design up afterwards.
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About the role
Design and scale a continuous stirred-tank reactor for fermentation-based protein production from concept through pilot deployment. - Research CSTR mechanics, derive governing equations, and build bench-scale prototype with validation and iterative improvements. - Translate bench-scale learnings to pilot-scale CSTR construction and thoroughly document design for future team use. - Requires M.Sc. student (or exceptional B.Sc. candidate) in chemical, mechanical engineering, or applied mathemati…
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