
Bioprocess Engineering
Kinetics, Sustainability, and Reactor Design
Description
Key Features
- Includes the mechanistic description of biotransformations and chemical transformations
- Provides quantitative descriptions of bioprocesses
- Contains extensive illustrative drawings, which make the understanding of the subject easy
- Includes bioprocess kinetics and reactor analysis
- Contains examples of the various process parameters, their significance, and their specific practical use
- Incorporates sustainability concepts into the various bioprocesses
Readership
Senior undergraduate students and graduate students in Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering and Biological Engineering Research Engineers and Scientists in Biotechnology and Bioprocess Design
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. An Overview of Biological Basics
Chapter 3. An Overview of Chemical Reaction Analysis
Chapter 4. Batch Reactor
Chapter 5. Ideal Flow Reactors
Chapter 6. Kinetic Theory and Reaction Kinetics
Chapter 7 Parametric Estimation
Chapter 8. Enzymes
NEW! Chapter 9. Allosteric Enzymes and Regulations
9.1. Reactions in Life
9.2. Allostericity and cooperativity
9.2.1 Single binding site and saturation binding
9.2.2 Multiple binding sites and Morpheein mechanism
9.3. Enzyme binding and transport
9.4. Kinetics of allosteric enzyme
9.5. Allosteric regulations
9.6. Summary
Recommended Reading Materials
Problems
NEW! Chapter 10. Adsorption
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Thermodynamics of adsorption
10.3 Ideal surface and Langmuir adsorption
10.3.1 Collision theory and adsorption rate
10.3.2 Langmuir adsorption isotherm
10.4 Idealization of non-ideal adsorption and multilayer adsorption
10.4.1 Idealization of non-uniform surface and surface interaction
10.4.2 Multilayer adsorption kinetics
10.4.3 Adsorption isotherm
10.4.4 BET isotherm
10.5 Pore Size and Surface Characterization
10.6. Applications of adsorption
10.7 Summary
Recommended Reading Materials
Problems
Chapter 11. Catalysis and Chemical Reactions on Solid Surfaces
Chapter 12. Cell Growth and Metabolism
Chapter 13. Kinetics of Cell Growth and Batch Cultivation
Chapter 14. Cell Growth and Fermentation
Chapter 15 Ideal Fed-Batch Reactor
Chapter 16. Evolution and Genetic Engineering
Chapter 17. Sustainability: Perspective
Chapter 18 Sustainability and Stability
Chapter 19. Mass Transfer Effects: Immobilized and Heterogeneous Reaction Systems
Chapter 20. Bioreactor Design & Operation
NEW! Chapter 21. Bioprocess Kinetics Experimental Design
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Identification of objectives
21.3 Experimental design
20.4 Model construction
20.5 Summary
Reading Materials
Problems
NEW! Chapter 22. Bioprocess Safety
22.1 Introduction
22.2 Chemicals and materials safety
22.3 Biosafety
22.4 Chemical process hazard
22.5 Bioprocess hazard
22.6 Reactive hazard
22.7 Summary
Reading Materials
Problems
Product details
- No. of pages: 1172
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2016
- Published: August 29, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780444637932
About the Author
Shijie Liu

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Ratings and Reviews
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Chang G. Tue Oct 23 2018
Great book for reviewing bioprocess
Well organized and contain many examples