Advanced Bioconversion of Liquid Waste Resources into Organic Acid

ISBN-13: 9783639208719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str.

Martin Tango

Opis

Industrial and food processing liquid wastes often contain complex sugars, which require high oxygen levels to breakdown if disposed into water bodies. Using selected bacteria, these sugars can be efficiently converted to useful organic chemicals, such as lactic acid. This approach not only minimizes pollutants emission into surface water, but also provides an economically viable as well as strives at due diligence, protects public health and safety, and desirable sustainable practice. Enhanced Bioprocessing of Liquid Wastes into Organic Acid provides the methodologies using concepts, contents and approaches that are logical to adopt. Presented in 14 chapters, the textbook explores a well articulated research approach utilizing bioreactors design, data acquisition and process control, key operating parameters and enhanced substrate utilization geared to superior end product formation. In addition, several governing kinetic models are presented and validated for the selected operating parameters. The author believes that the methodology proposed and scientific knowledge contributed is beneficial to the advancement of sustainable industrial and environmental biotechnology processes

O autorze

Martin Tango, PhD, PEng is an Assistant Professor at School of Engineering, Acadia University. He has over 15 years of teaching and research experience in product design and development, and bioprocess engineering. He specializes in microbial technologies, and embraces use of biotechnology in design and development of sustainable processes.