Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Bioprocesses, Bioreactors and Controls

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Bioprocesses, Bioreactors and Controls provides extensive coverage of new developments, state-of-the-art technologies, and potential future trends, reviewing industrial biotechnology and bioengineering practices that facilitate and enhance the transition of processes from lab to plant scale, which is becoming increasingly important as such transitions continue to grow in frequency.

Focusing on industrial bioprocesses, bioreactors for bioprocesses, and controls for bioprocesses, this title reviews industrial practice to identify bottlenecks and propose solutions, highlighting that the optimal control of a bioprocess involves not only maximization of product yield, but also taking into account parameters such as quality assurance and environmental aspects.

Industrial Bioprocesses

1. Industrial bioprocesses and the biorefinery concept

2. Omics tools for bioprocess development

3. Cell factories for industrial bioprocesses

4. Enzyme systems for industrial bioprocesses

5. Design and types of bioprocesses

6. Bioprocess engineering and process optimization

7. Microbial bioprocesses

8. Plant cell bioprocesses

9. Animal cell bioprocesses

10. Biofilm bioprocesses

Bioreactors for Industrial Bioprocesses

11. Basics of Bioreactor Design

12. Stirred-Tank Bioreactors

13. Nonmechanically Agitated Bioreactors

14. Packed-bed Bioreactors

15. Membrane Bioreactors

16. Photobioreactors

17. Solid-State Fermentation Bioreactor Fundamentals

18. Bioreactor Development for the Cultivation of Extremophilic Microorganisms

19. Application of Microbioreactors for Bioprocesses

20. Modeling and Control of Bioreactors

21. Scale-up strategies of Bioreactors

Controls of Industrial Bioprocesses

22. Principles of bioprocess control

23. Characterization of industrial bioreactors (mixing, mass and heat transfer)

24. Present status of standard instruments for bioprocess analysis and control

25. Biosensors

26. Real-time Knowledge-Based Systems