Book Audience and Overview

WHO SHOULD READ

THIS BOOK?
The intersection between biology and engineering has resulted in a number of elds,
two of which are biochemical engineering
and biomedical engineering. Thus, one
would like to use this book to broaden his or
her knowledge in interdisciplinary area of
engineering/technology and biology/medicine. The eld biochemical engineering is
relatively new; in past two decades more
research activities have been developed.
I believe more and more research activities
will be focused in this area in near future.
The extended material exactly deals with
application of biotechnology, as the related
bioprocess may lead to commercialization.
This book is focused on practical knowledge and research outcome, which is used to
justify the theoretical concepts. Bioseparation
and environmental issues are incorporated as
case studies related to bioprocesses. Beside
case studies, the book contains many examples and solved problems, which help readers
to understand all industrial aspects and applications in biotechnology. The second edition broadens the knowledge of research
scientists on Biochemical Engineering and
Biotechnology to learn fundamentals of
biotechnology and apply research outcome in
commercial scale. The knowledge in this book
is not limited to any geographic region.
Most of currently available books in this
eld are very complicated or may not
explain the detail of processes. In my
opinion, detail information in this book

offers the greatest advantage over other

available sources. Students and those who
are getting familiar with biological and
biotechnological processes need to know
about biosciences, some examples, and case
studies to improve their information and
knowledge. This book illustrates several
successful research and case studies conducted in this area, which would be very
helpful to give an insight to readers.
The present book is more attractive to
chemical engineers academics, professionals,
and postgraduate students, while it is recommended for senior undergraduates. All
chapters give more understanding of the
related knowledge to specic eld of
biotechnology. The related case studies are
incorporated with original research data that
would help to develop advance research
technology and innovation.
This book is a useful guide for all scientists to apply theoretical bases and also to
conduct research in bioprocesses. The book
explains many concepts and presents highly
qualitative and quantitative results in biological processes. It concentrates on application of biology and biochemistry in
engineering aspects. The details of bioengineering concepts would be the following:
enzyme and microbial growth kinetics;
bioreactor design and actual applications in
process scale-up; downstream product
recovery; biological products separation
and purication; and production of valueadded products such as enzymes from
wastes, antibiotics, and other fermentative
products.

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BOOK AUDIENCE AND OVERVIEW

The target audience (mainly undergraduate and graduate students of biochemical

engineering) needs to understand the basic
concepts and theoretical and practical
knowledge with appropriate depth and
breadth about this topic. This book combines
the theoretical basis of biochemical engineering with original research data. This is a
great benecial to the reader.
The second edition of the present book
should serve as a useful reference for research
scientists currently conducting research in the
area of chemical, physical, and biological
treatment of industrial wastewater.
This book contains important and interesting topics in the eld of bioprocess.
Extensive applications of biotechnology in
biochemical engineering are included. The
second edition has been certainly improved,
which may attract special attention of many

scientists around the world. The revised

book emphasizes on practical aspects and
case studies. It contains useful guidelines for
young research scientists to develop their
research activities. I believe this book can
deliver practical knowledge and contribute
to special elds of bioprocesses.
The new chapters added to the second
edition are novel and related to recent topics
in biotechnology. Additional case studies
from recent researches are useful and can
give insight to the readers to broaden their
future work. Addition of new chapters may
enhance the quality of the work. More discussion on pathway of microorganisms is
also incorporated. Identifying the pathway
of organisms may assist engineers to know
the growth factors and enzymes related to
enhance series of biological reactions to
achieve high yield of end products.