Bisaria / Kondo Bioprocessing of Renewable Resources to Commodity Bioproducts

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-84533-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten, E-Book

This book provides the vision of a successful biorefinery--the lignocelluloic biomass needs to be efficiently converted to its constituent monomers, comprising mainly of sugars such as glucose, xylose, mannose and arabinose. Accordingly, the first part of the book deals with aspects crucial for the pretreatment and hydrolysis of biomass to give sugars in high yield, as well as the general aspects of bioprocessing technologies which will enable the development of biorefineries through inputs of metabolic engineering, fermentation, downstream processing and formulation. The second part of the book gives the current status and future directions of the biological processes for production of ethanol (a biofuel as well as an important commodity raw material), solvents (butanol, isobutanol, butanediols, propanediols), organic acids (lactic acid, 3-hydroxy propionic acid, fumaric acid, succinic acid and adipic acid), and amino acid (glutamic acid). The commercial production of some of these commodity bioproducts in the near future will have a far reaching effect in realizing our goal of sustainable conversion of these renewable resources and realizing the concept of biorefinery.
Suitable for researchers, practitioners, graduate students and consultants in biochemical/ bioprocess engineering, industrial microbiology, bioprocess technology, metabolic engineering, environmental science and energy, the book offers:
* Exemplifies the application of metabolic engineering approaches for development of microbial cell factories
* Provides a unique perspective to the industry about the scientific problems and their possible solutions in making a bioprocess work for commercial production of commodity bioproducts
* Discusses the processing of renewable resources, such as plant biomass, for mass production of commodity chemicals and liquid fuels to meet our ever- increasing demands
* Encourages sustainable green technologies for the utilization of renewable resources
* Offers timely solutions to help address the energy problem as non-renewable fossil oil will soon be unavailable

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bisaria, Virendra S.

Kondo, Akihiko

Über Autor(innen)

Virendra S. Bisaria is Professor in the Department ofBiochemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the Indian Instituteof Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. He has published morethan 100 original papers, 10 reviews and 15 book chapters. Heis Editor of the Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering(Elsevier) and is on the editorial boards of Journal of ChemicalTechnology and Biotechnology (Wiley) and Process Biochemistry(Elsevier). He was one of the International collaborators torecommend assay procedures for cellulase and xylanase activities onbehalf of Commission on Biotechnology, International Union of Pureand Applied Chemistry. His awards include the Research ExchangeAward from the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineeringand fellowships from UNESCO and UNDP etc. He is Vice President ofAsian Federation of Biotechnology from India.Akihiko Kondo is Professor in the Department of ChemicalEngineering and Director of Biorefinery Center at Kobe University,Kobe, Japan. He is Team Leader, Biomass Engineering Program,RIKEN. He has published more than 330 original papers, 75 reviewsand 55 book chapters. He is Editor of Journal of Biotechnology(Elsevier), Associate Editor of Biochemical Engineering Journal(Elsevier) and is on the editorial boards of Biotechnology forBiofuels (Springer), Bioresource Technology (Elsevier), Journal ofBiological Engineering (Springer) and FEMS Yeast Research(Wiley). He has won numerous awards which include theAdvanced Technology Award by Fuji Sankei Business and TakedaInternational Contributions Award by Takeda Pharmaceuticals.