Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts, 3rd Edition

Preface

This third edition of Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts updates the prior two editions. Although the principles of bioprocess engineering stated in the first two editions remains sound, the field has made considerable advances in improving the productivity, consistency, and safety of bioprocesses.

Some of the major changes in the book come from biology itself with the development of tools that have greatly increased our ability to both understand and manipulate cell biology more effectively and cheaply. On the bioprocess side, tremendous advances have been made in production of biologicals with greater emphasis on processes incorporating animal cells. In particular, productivity in making many heterologous proteins has increased ...