Role of Microbes in Industrial Products and Processes

The book covers recent breakthroughs and highlights the major role microbes play in industrial products and processes.

With the advent of industrial biotechnology, microbes became popular as cell factories, and with the recent advancements in recombinant DNA technology, the application of microorganisms in various sectors has increased enormously for the development of various processes and products.

Role of Microbes in Industrial Products and Processes covers recent breakthroughs and highlights the major role microbes play in industrial products and processes. It mainly focuses on the bio-refinery concept where bio-energy production and wastewater treatment are done simultaneously using micro-algae. Additionally, this book describes the role of microbes involved in the production of various enzymes, organic acids, and bio-polymers. It also provides detailed insight on modeling and simulation of bioprocess for the production of sugar alcohol; recovery of value-added products from organic waste using microbes is also reported. Detailed insights into the treatment of wastewater released from various industries, especially pharmaceutical wastewater, are given.

Audience

The book is intended for researchers, scientists, and postgraduates in chemical/biochemical engineering and bioprocess engineering, and others working in the domain of food microbiology, bioenergy/refinery, waste valorization to value-added products, and microbial production of bioplastics, sugar alcohols, enzymes, and organic acids.

Sanjay Kumar, PhD, is working in the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh, India. His research interests include microbial production of biofuels & bio-plastics (PHB), wastewater treatment, bioreactor analysis & design, scale-up of microbial fermentations, and downstream processing of microbial secondary metabolites.

Narendra Kumar, PhD, is an associate professor & Head, Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Institute of Advanced Research, The University for Innovation, Koba Institutional Area, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. His research interests include microbial fuel cell, sustainable agriculture, microbial technology & environmental biotechnology. Dr. Kumar has more than 40 publications to his credit, which include research papers, conference papers, book chapters, and edited books.

Shahid-ul-Islam, PhD, is a faculty member and researcher in the Department of Chemistry, Islamic University of Science and Technology (IUST), J & K, India. His research is focused on imparting novel functions to polymers using organic chemistry, green technologies, and the valorization of biomass into useful products. He is the author of numerous scientific peer-reviewed journal papers and the editor of many books, several of which are with the Wiley-Scrivener imprint.