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Bioprocessing for Value-Added Products from Renewable Resources
New Technologies and Applications
Shang-Tian Yang (Edited by)
9780444521149, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 28 November 2006
684 pages
24 x 16.5 x 3.6 cm, 1.37 kg
Bioprocessing for Value-Added Products from Renewable Resources provides a timely review of new and unconventional techniques for manufacturing high-value products based on simple biological material. The book discusses the principles underpinning modern industrial biotechnology and describes a unique collection of novel bioprocesses for a sustainable future. This book begins in a very structured way. It first looks at the modern technologies that form the basis for creating a bio-based industry before describing the various organisms that are suitable for bioprocessing - from bacteria to algae - as well as their unique characteristics. This is followed by a discussion of novel, experimental bioprocesses, such as the production of medicinal chemicals, the production of chiral compounds and the design of biofuel cells. The book concludes with examples where biological, renewable resources become an important feedstock for large-scale industrial production. This book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, students, and consultants in the bioprocess and biotechnology fields, and for others who are interested in biotechnology, engineering, industrial microbiology and chemical engineering.
I. Enabling Technologies
II. Cultures for Bioprocessing
III. Unconventional and Novel Bioprocesses
IV. Feedstock Utilization
Index
Subject Areas: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology [THX], Biochemical engineering [TC], Technology: general issues [TB], Physics [PH]
