Biochemical Engineering

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.