Fermentation and Bioprocess Engineering Processes
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Biological Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 11961
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fermentation; bioprocessing; value-added products; process optimization; reactor design; scale-up
Interests: enzymes; bioreactors; industrial microbiology, fermentation; biotransformation
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Interests: biomanufacturing; recombinant biopharmaceuticals; fermentation; bioprocess optimization; upstream processing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fermentation process is an approach that promotes the growth of microorganisms for the production of value-added products such as organic acids, enzymes, vitamins, and biopharmaceuticals. Through fermentation, raw agricultural bioproducts or industrial wastes can be converted into value-added products. The production of value-added products from agricultural raw materials not only increases the value of farmers’ crops but can also improve the wellbeing of people. In most cases, the dependency on petroleum-based products can be minimized, owing to our ability to obtain the same products can obtained via microbial fermentation, utilizing renewable raw materials such as corn and potatoes. In terms of renewable energy production, biogas, ethanol, and bio-hydrogen are the most promising microbial products. With petroleum sources increasingly rendered unsustainable, this area alone is very exciting since with the ever greater need for new and cleaner energy sources. On the other hand, many compounds related to human health such as vaccines and prebiotics can be produced in bioreactors, making use of different microorganisms and fermentation techniques.
This Special Issue on “Fermentation and Bioprocess Engineering Processes” will not only provide the fundamentals for fermentation processes, but also provide some successful examples. We believe this will contribute significantly in this field and encourage for future research.
Prof. Dr. Ali Demirci
Prof. Dr. Irfan Turhan
Dr. Ehsan Mahdinia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fermentation
- bioprocessing
- reactor design
- process optimization
- value-added products
- industrial microbiology
- biotechnology
- microbial fermentation
- cell culture
- bioconversion
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: From benchtop to large scale bioreactors: Strategies for the scale-up
Authors: Dr. Ehsan Mahdinia
Affiliation: Stack Family Center for Biopharmaceutical Education & Training, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY 12203, USA
Title: Innovative exploitation of agro-industrial wastes for mushroom cultivation. Part II: effect of substrates on nutritional composition and antioxidant potential of carposomes
Authors: Prof. Santy Diamantopoulou
Affiliation: Laboratory of Edible Fungi, Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization - DIMITRA, Sof. Venizelou 1, Lycovrissi, 14123, Greece
Title: Utilization of local agri-processing by-products to produce fungal biomass
Authors: Prof. Samir Kumar Khanal
Affiliation: Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, HI, USA
Title: Hybrid modelling for on-line fermentation optimization and enhanced scale-up
Authors: Prof. Krist V. Gernaey
Affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 229, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Title: Mechanical Cell Disruption Technologies for Intracellular Compound Extraction from Fermentation Microorganisms
Authors: Haibo Huang
Affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA