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Bioprocessing can be described as the process whereby a material is converted into another using biological agents. This area combines chemical engineering, biology, and fermentations. This can also refer to an overall process in which one key step is carried out biologically (the other steps may be grinding, separations, purification, and so on). This session and the associated posters surveyed current efforts in the interest of taking a potentially valuable bioconversion and testing it as a process. The products included ethanol, fumaric and succinic acids, and the enzyme cellulase. The reactor schemes described included stirred batch reactors, slurry reactors, immobilized-cell fluidized-bed columnar reactors, and improved airlift columnar reactors.
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Dorsch, R.R., Hatzis, C. (1997). Bioprocessing Research. In: Davison, B.H., Wyman, C.E., Finkelstein, M. (eds) Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, vol 63-65. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2312-2_30
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