Najafpour - Biochemical Engineering

Auteur

Ghasem Najafpour is distinguished professor in Chemical Engineering and the Chairman of Biotechnology Research Center, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran. He is an educated scholar from University of Arkansas, USA with strong background in biological processes. He is deeply involved in research and teaching in biochemical engineering subjects since 1980 and has conducted many practical research projects in the fields of biofuel and biochemical engineering.

He has served as academic member of University of Mazandran, Visiting Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada and University of Arkansas, USA, University Science Malaysia (USM, Penang) and Babol Noshirvani University of Technology. He also spent his sabbatical leave at University of Arkansas, USA (1992-1993). He has expanded his scientific research activities on single cell protein (SCP), hydrogen as clean fuel, microbial fuel cells, renewable energy and synthetic fuels. Since 2005, he was qualified and appointed as Professor in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Iran.

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Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Third Edition outlines the principles of biochemical processes, explaining their use in the manufacturing of every day products. The book's unique offering lies in it inclusion of many solved problems, case studies, examples, and demonstrations of detailed experiments that include simple design equations and required calculations. All chapters are fully revised, updated, and include the latest research results in the field of biochemical engineering and biotechnology. The new edition emphasizes practical aspects, microorganisms, upgrades of new types of membrane bioreactors, and contains more case studies and solved problems.

This book remains an indispensable reference for researchers in bioprocess engineering, chemicals, the physical/biological treatment of industrial wastewater, enzyme technology, fermentation processes, nano-particles' synthesis for antibiotic loading, medicine, and drug delivery.

Contenu

1. Industrial Microbiology
   
   2. Enzyme Technology
   3. Gas and Liquid System
   4. Fermentation Process Control
   5. Growth Kinetics
   6. Bioreactor Design
   7. Downstream Processing
   8. Immobilization of Microbial Cells for the Production of Organic Acid and Ethanol
   9. Material and Elemental Balance
   10. Application of Fermentation Processes
   11. Production of Antibiotics
   12. Production of Citric Acid
   13. Bioprocess Scale-up
   14. Single-Cell Protein
   15. Sterilization
   16. Membrane Reactor
   17. Design and fabrication of membrane bioreactors
   18. Advanced Downstream Processing in Biotechnology
   19. Microbial Fuel Cells: A New Source of Power
   20. Biological Treatment
   21. Biofuel Production
   22. Algal growth, bioconversion of power plant flue gas for biodiesel production
   23. Bioanode fabrications in microbial fuel cells for dye removal, a biodegradation of organic contaminants using potential microorganisms
   24. Biosensors fabrications for fast detection of contaminates in biofluids
   25. Nanoparticle synthesis, ferromagnetic for dug loading and drug delivery; Case study: Medical Application of Biomaterial in Treating Bacterial Infection