The text book of Biochemical Engineering: An Impression is designed so that its graduates are familiar with the techniques used in analyzing the problems associated with the biochemical and related industries. This book has four basic chapters to provide the basic information about the biochemical engineering and related techniques. In chapter 1, the overview of Biochemical Engineering including biotechnology and unit operation has been discussed. Also, commercial aspects and scope of biochemical engineering is deliberated in chapter 1. The basics of sterilization, its method, Monitoring Procedures, Nutrient Media, types, etc. are illustrated in chapter 2. The chapter 3 is about aeration and agitation in which mass transfer path, oxygen transfer and mixing, oxygen transfer rate, volumetric mass transfer, mass transfer theory, mass transfer coefficients, bioreactor oxygen balance, stirred tank reactor, inter-phase mass transfer, rheology, and many more. The last chapter 4 has covered the important aspect of biochemical engineering i.e. microbial growth kinetics where the basic concept of growth kinetics, type, stoichiometry, maintenance of energy, yield, factors affecting growth rate, product formation kinetics and thermodynamics of cellular growth is discussed in detail along with examples. This book helps to graduate and undergraduate students of chemical and biochemical engineering disciplines to analyze various problems.

Chapter 1
Overview of Bioprocess and Biochemical Engineering
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Biotechnology
1.3 History of Biochemical Engineering
1.4 Biochemical Unit Operations and Processes
1.5 Commercial Aspects and Scope of Biochemical Engineering
1.6 List of Chemical/ Biochemical Engineering Societies
Summary

Chapter 2
Sterilization
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Basics of Sterilization
2.3 Sterilization Methods
2.4 Concept of Hot Air Sterilization and CO2 Incubator
2.5 Monitoring Sterilization Procedures
2.6 Sterilants
2.7 Sterilization of Nutrient Media
2.8 Design of Batch Sterilization Process
2.9 Design of Continuous Sterilization Processes
2.10 Sterilization of Air
2.11 Industrial Air Filtration
2.12 Diffusion
Summary

Chapter 3
Aeration and Agitation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Mass Transfer Path
3.3 Oxygen Transfer and Mixing in Airlift Bioreactors
3.4 Oxygen Transfer in Microbial Systems
3.5 Oxygen Transfer Rate (OTR)
3.6 Volumetric Mass Transfer Coefficient (KLa) and Experimental Determination
3.7 Mass Transfer Theory
3.8 Correlations for Mass Transfer Coefficients
3.9 Volumetric Oxygen Transfer Coefficients during Fermentation
3.10 Bioreactor Oxygen Balance
3.11 Aeration and Agitation in Stirred Tank Reactor
3.12 Power Requirement
3.13 Correlation for KLa
3.14 Bioreactor for Fermentation Scale-Up
3.15 Inter-phase Mass Transfer
3.16 Rheology
Summary

Chapter 4
Microbial Growth Kinetics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Microbial Growth
4.3 Kinetics
4.4 Microbial Growth Kinetics
4.5 Microbial Growth Kinetics in Batch Culture
4.6 Microbial Growth Kinetics in Continuous Culture
4.7 Microbial Growth Kinetics in Fed Batch Culture
4.8 Maintenance of Energy
4.9 Stoichiometry of Cellular Growth
4.10 Mathematical Definition of Yield
4.11 Factors Affecting Growth Rate
4.12 Product Formation Kinetics
4.13 Thermodynamics of Cellular Growth
Summary