Fundamentals of Biochemical Engineering
Ashok K. Rathoure
First Edition 2013
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The present book helps to graduate and undergraduate
students of chemical and biochemical engineering disciplines to analyse various
problems. This book is written keeping in mind the need for a text book on the
aforesaid subject for students from both engineering and biology backgrounds.
The book contains 22 chapters. In this book, we begin by describing brief
overview and commercial scope of biochemical engineering. The second chapter
deals with basics of sterilization process, design of air filters and kinetics.
The third chapter deals aeration and agitation in bioreactor and rheology of
fluid. Chapter 4 is concerned about the microbial growth kinetics in batch, fed
batch and continuous culture system. Chapter 5 introduces students with basics
of mass transfer and gas absorption. Chapter 6 deals with design of bioreactor
and distillation covered in chapter 7. The chapter 8 deals liquid extraction
including concurrent and counter current operations in single and multistage
solvent extraction, triangular diagrams. The ninth chapter includes drying for
batch and freeze drying. The chapter 10 deals with various aspects of
thermodynamics used in biochemical engineering including co-ordination of
microbial metabolism with reference to carbohydrates, lipids and proteins.
Eleventh chapter describes the metabolism and metabolic pathway with its
regulation. Chapter 12 concerned with cell growth stoichiometry and product
formation kinetics. The chapter 13 describes general fermentation technology,
its various products, bacterial fermentation and yeast fermentation. Chapter 14 includes beer production, wine
manufacturing and other distilled liquors and fifteenth chapter provides the
description of microbial production of organic acids and fermentation processes.
The chapter 16 concerned with biomass as a fermentation product. Chapter 17
describes the commercial production of amino acids e.g. lysine, glutamic acid
along with solid and submerged process. Eighteenth chapter discusses the scale
up and fed batch fermentation whereas continuous fermentation discussed in
chapter 19. The downstream processing found in chapter 20 and hazards
managements in chapter 21. The last chapter deals with brief introduction to biochemical
engineering and biotechnology including role of biotechnology in biochemical
engineering. Some boxed Boxed material throughout the book is provided to
illustrate the topics covered in the main text, explanations in depth that
extend the coverage beyond the content of the main text. This book will widely
help to students, teachers, academicians to aid the knowledge about the course
and beyond the course related to the subject matter.
