Bioreaction Engineering Principles

The authors (affiliated with BioCentrum-DTU, Denmark and Lund U., Sweden) present the new edition of a textbook that aims to explain the proper analysis of bioreactions in order to change outcomes. They focus on the operation of the cell factory and the interaction of the cell factories with each other and the environment imposed via operation of the bioreactor. Chapters cover the thermodynamics of biochemical reactions, biochemical reaction networks, enzyme kinetics and metabolic control analysis, modeling of growth kinetics, population balance equations, design of fermentation process, mass transfer, and scale-up of bioprocesses. The material should be understandable to most students with a background in chemical engineering. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).