Bioprocess Engineering Principles

by Pauline M. Doran

Book Overview

The emergence and refinement of techniques in molecular biology has changed our perceptions of medicine, agriculture, and environmental management. Scientific breakthroughs in gene expression, protein engineering, and cell fusion are being translated by a strengthening biotechnology industry into revolutionary new products and services. Many a student has been enticed by the promise of biotechnology and the excitement of being near the cutting edge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0122208560
• ISBN13: 9780122208560
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

"Biochemical Engineering" for biology students

This is a comprehensive textbook on biochemical engineering suitable for students with only elementary knowledge of mathematics and engineering. It covers all the main aspects of the field but with minimal prerequisite knowledge of differential calculus and statistics. In the first part are given concepts of mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and unit operations. It is followed with reaction principles, kinetics of biological processes, heterogeneous reactions, and reactor engineering principles. Each topic includes practical examples and numerical solutions to problems. Students with biological background will find this book as the most appropriate introduction to biotechnology.

Valuable for Intermediate Students

This book is valuable especially for intermediate students who took some courses of microbiology and fermentation.It covers from basic to practical, and explains equations and math-related things well that most students feel difficulties.You can even calculate the fraction of plasmid bearing cell in batch culture with usual decreasing copy number, and you can understand oxygen transfer rate clearly.