Bioprocess Engineering for a Green Environment

This book deals with bioprocess engineering, which encompasses the design and development of equipment and processes for the manufacturing of products such as food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, polymers and paper from biological materials. It also deals with studying various biotechnological processes used in industries for large scale production of biological products, for the optimization of yield. This work also incorporates significant treatment on biocatalysts and their applications in food industry, bioplastics production, conversion of agro waste and the importance of biotechnology in bioprocessing. This is coupled with pertinent information related to environmental contaminants.

Dr. V. Sivasubramanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology-Calicutta, India. He has been an active instructor and researcher over the past 12 years in such fields as bioprocessing fluidization engineering, hydrodynamics, mass transfer, biochemical engineering, environmental engineering and energy engineering. He has published over 70 peer reviewed papers and authored or edited three books.