Description:

This concise and systematically organized text provides a fundamental overview of bioprocess engineering in a simple and straightforward manner with emphasis on its scope and applications. It is built on core concepts such as thermodynamics, stoichiometry, reactor design, transport phenomena, and process control. The book helps students familiarize the state-of-the-art knowledge in topics such as metabolic engineering, enzyme kinetics, biomass growth and propagation, fermentation and other industrial bioprocesses.

KEY FEATURES

• The book fully conforms to the model curriculum of biotechnology and bioprocess engineering as per AICTE guideline prescribed at senior undergraduate and graduate levels.

• Contains extensive illustrative drawings, graphical presentation, images, and tables for better understanding of the subject.

• Covers major concepts of biochemical engineering including applications in bioprocesses, fermentation technologies, enzymatic processes, and downstream separation processes, amongst others.

• Provides a balanced blend of microbiology, biochemistry and chemical engineering knowledge base relevant to bioprocess design, operation and scale-up.

• Includes chapter-end review questions and problems to test students' comprehension of the subject.

• Summarises Key points at the end of each chapter, as a ready reckoner for the students to recapitulate.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• B.Tech. Biotechnology

• B.Tech. Chemical Engineering

• P.G. Diploma in Bioprocess Technology

• M.Tech. Biotechnology