Bioreaction Engineering Principles

Bioreaction Engineering Principles

By Jens Nielsen, John Villadsen, Gunnar Lidén,

Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 540
Publication Date: 2002-12-31
Sales Rank: 204525
ISBN / ASIN: 0306473496
EAN: 9780306473494
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Springer
Studio: Springer
Average Rating: 4.5

Biotechnology is a rapidly moving field, which builds on the competence and interplay of many different disciplines; biochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology and chemical engineering. The quantitative treatment of biological processes is today a prerequisite for both the design of new bioprocesses and the analysis of cellular function.
The present text is an extensively revised edition of the textbook first published in 1994. The quantitative treatment of bioprocesses is a central theme in this book. The book has been restructured to make it more easily accessible to the reader, the material has been updated and several new topics have been added in the text.
The focus is on the bioreactor and the processes that occur in the reactor, i.e. the coupling between the reactions occurring in the cell and its environment. The microbial cellular metabolism is the starting point in the treatment. Tools for the quantitative analysis of cellular functions - macroscopic mass balancing, thermodynamics of microbial processes, metabolic network analysis and kinetic modelling - are gradually introduced. After analysis of the cellular reactor, the interaction between the cell and its environment is treated in chapters concerning mass transfer and design of bioprocesses. Finally, the complex subject of scale-up is presented.
The book combines, in a rather unique way, a quantitative treatment of physiology at the cellular level with a treatment of the bioreactor and interaction between the cellular reactor and the bioreactor. Many examples and problems are used to illustrate important concepts in the text.

Review:

This book gives a complete picture.

I am a postgraduate student in biochemical engineering and I am working on modelling of bioprocesses. I have come across this book a little while ago and it changed the course of studies in a very positive manner. The most important characteristic of this book is that it encompasess the complete spectrum of topics required to thoroughly understand the fundementals of bioprocesses. Consistant nomenclature and mathematical expressions used throughout the book helps the reader to grasp rather comlicated inter-relationships between relatively distant topics much easily. At times the book requires a somewhat competent background in biological sciences and engineering to fully digest everything offered but once the reader adapts to the authors' style the book becomes a very valuable reference.

Review:

Excellent book with a mathematical approach

This book is an excellent book for graduate students in biochemical engineering or for students of chemical engineering. It describes models such as metabolic flux analysis and metabolic control analysis. Furthermore mass transfer in fermentors and modelling of fermentors is described in great detail. The book is rather heavy to digest, but when you are through it, it is invaluable.

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