Solvent Extraction in Biotechnology deals with the reco- very and purification of primary and secondary metabolites by solvent extraction. In the first part the reaction engineering principles: definitions, thermodynamic fundamentals, and system models, the kinetics of mass transfer between two phases without and with chemical reaction as well as extraction equipment, which are important for downstream processing in biotechnology, are considered in detail. The special part of the book describes the recovery of low-molecular metabolites: alcohols, acids and antibiotics with organic...

This special volume "Tools and Applications of Biochemical Engineering Science" is dedicated to Professor Wolf-Dieter Deckwer on the occasion of his 60th bir- day. It was a great pleasure for me to act together with Professor Karl Schtigerl as volume editor and to present here a collection of 11 outstanding review articles written mainly by former students, associates, colleagues and friends of Wolf- Dieter Deckwer. The title of this special volume well reflects the research interests and sci- tific pursuit of Wolf-Dieter Deckwer during his more than 20 years' work in the area of biochemical...

Die prazise Uberwachung von Bioprozessen ist eine der wichtigsten Voraussetzungen fur ihre Systemanalyse, mathematische Modellierung, Regelung und Dokumentation. Die Umsetzung von Ausgangsprodukten mit Hilfe von Biokatalysatoren muss genau verfolgt werden, um hohe Produktivitat und Produktqualitat zu erreichen. Dieses Buch fasst erstmals die allgemeinen und speziellen Messmethoden, die fur die Prozessuberwachung von zentraler Bedeutung sind, zusammen. Das Spektrum der vorgestellten Methoden umfasst verschiedene in-situ Techniken fur die Uberwachung von Zustand- und Kontrollvariablen, sterile...