Industrial biotechnology: products and processes

In: Advanced biotechnology volume 4

In: Advanced Biotechnology Ser

Abstract

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Series Editors -- Preface -- Part I Enabling and Improving Large-Scale Bio-production -- Chapter 1 Industrial-Scale Fermentation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Industrial-Scale Fermentation Today -- 1.3 Engineering and Design Aspects -- 1.4 Industrial Design Examples -- 1.5 Cost Analysis for the Manufacture of Biotechnological Products -- 1.6 Influence of Process- and Facility-Related Aspects on Cost Structure -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2 Scale-Down: Simulating Large-Scale Cultures in the Laboratory -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Heterogeneities at Large Scale and the Need for Scaling Down -- 2.3 Bioreactor Scale-Down -- 2.4 Tools to Study Cell Responses to Environmental Heterogeneities -- 2.5 Physiological Effects of Environmental Heterogeneities -- 2.6 Improvements Based on Scale-Down Studies: Bioreactor Design and Cell Engineering -- 2.7 Perspectives -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 3 Bioreactor Modeling -- 3.1 Large-Scale Industrial Fermentations: Challenges for Bioreactor Modeling -- 3.2 Bioreactors -- 3.3 Compartment and Hybrid Multizonal/Computational Fluid Dynamics Approaches for the Description of Large-Scale Bioreactor Phenomena -- 3.4 Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling: Unstructured Continuum Approach (Euler-Euler) -- 3.5 Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling: Structured Segregated Approach (Euler-Lagrange) -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 3.7 Outlook -- References -- Chapter 4 Cell Culture Technology -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Overview of Applications for Cell Culture Products and Tissue Engineering -- 4.3 Fundamentals -- 4.4 Bioreactors for Cell Culture -- 4.5 Downstream -- 4.6 Regulatory and Safety Issues -- 4.7 Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Part II Getting Out More: Strategies for Enhanced Bioprocessing.