Historical development : Ethanol to biopharmaceuticals -- Microbiolgy -- Metabolic macromolecules -- Molecular biology-- Carbon metabolism -- Enzymes as biocatalysts -- Microbial kinetics during batch, continuous and fed-batch processes -- The oxygen transfer rate and overall volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient -- Bioprocess scale up -- Bioprocess asepsis and sterility -- Down stream processing.
Summary
This book details the application of chemical engineering principles for the development, design, operation and scale up of bioprocesses.
