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Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals

Advances in Enzyme Technology

  • 1st Edition - January 31, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ram Sarup Singh, Reeta Rani Singhania, Ashok Pandey, Christian Larroche
  • Language: English

Biomass, Biofuels and Biochemicals: Advances in Enzyme Technology provides state-of-the-art information on the fundamental aspects and current perspectives in enzyme technolog… Read more

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Description

Biomass, Biofuels and Biochemicals: Advances in Enzyme Technology provides state-of-the-art information on the fundamental aspects and current perspectives in enzyme technology to graduate students, postgraduates and researchers working in industry and academia. The book provides information about the use of enzyme technology as an important tool for biotechnological processes, including food, feed, fuels, textiles, paper, energy and environmental applications. The search for improvements in existing enzyme-catalyzed processes dictates the need to update information on various enzyme technologies. The book gives a snapshot of current practice and research in the area of enzyme technology.

Key features

  • Includes current and emerging technologies for the development of novel enzyme catalysis
  • Outlines immobilized enzymes and their implications
  • Refers to enzymes as diagnostic tools
  • Includes metabolic engineering principles for improving industrial enzymes

Readership

Academics and researchers at graduate and postgraduate level in Chemical and Process Engineering, Environmental science, Sustainability analysis, Electrochemistry, Materials science, Biotechnology, Microbiology, and Molecular biology

Table of contents

1. Microbial enzymes: An overview

2. Purification of enzymes

3. Enzyme kinetics and modelling of enzymatic systems

4. Thermodynamics of enzyme catalyzed reaction

5. Enzymatic biocatalysis in chemical transformations: A promising and emerging field in green chemistry

6. Current and emerging technologies for the development of novel enzyme catalysis

7. Industrial applications of multistep enzyme reactions

8. Enzyme nanocarriers

9. Immobilized enzymes and their implications

10. Enzyme based biosensors and their applications

11. Enzymes as diagnostic tools

12. Enzymes as analytical tools for the assessment of food quality and food safety

13. Metabolic engineering for the improvement of industrial enzymes

14. Enzyme engineering

15. Recombinant enzymes in food and pharmaceutical industry

16. Tailoring of industrial enzymes

17. Metagenomics and the search for industrial enzymes

18. Bioinformatics of industrial enzymes

19. Enzymes: Emerging trends and future perspectives

20. Global market scenario of industrial enzymes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 6, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editors

RS

Ram Sarup Singh

Dr. Singh is working in the area of Industrial Biotechnology particularly industrial enzymes, biopolymers, glycoproteins, biofuels, etc. from fungal sources. He has more than 300 publications, including 200 research papers, 5 books, 45 book chapters, and 50 popular articles and has been granted 2 Indian patents. He has many national and international awards to his credit. He is Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India, Association of Microbiologists of India and Mycological Society of India. He was guest editor of Biologia, Indian Journal of Experimental biology and Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2012.
Affiliations and expertise
Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Punjab, India

RS

Reeta Rani Singhania

Dr Reeta Rani Singhania is currently Associate Professor at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology at Kaohsiung in Taiwan. Her major research area Microbial & Enzyme Technology and Bioprocess Technology, with current focus on value-added compounds from lignocellulosic biomass including oligosaccharides and bioethanol. She has 16 patents, edited four books and published more than 180 research articles, several book chapters and conference communications. She is the recipient of several national and international awards. She is the Editor of Bioresource Technology Reports and System Microbiologyand Biomanufacturing and Associate Editor of Heliyon Energy.
Affiliations and expertise
Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research, IOCL R&D, Faridabad, India

AP

Ashok Pandey

Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. His major research and technological development interests are industrial and environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels and chemicals, waste to wealth and energy, etc.

Affiliations and expertise
Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow, India

CL

Christian Larroche

Prof. Christian Larroche is Director of Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, a graduate school of engineering of University Clermont-Auvergne, France. He is also member of the research laboratory Institut Pascal and of the laboratory of excellence ImobS3 at the same university. He has strong research skills and expertise in the area of applied microbiology and biochemical engineering. He is author of 220 documents, including 114 articles, three patents, 15 book chapters and 24 co-editions of books or journal special issues. He is member of French Society for Process Engineering (SFGP), French Society of Biotechnology and European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is administrator of IBA-IFIBiop and editor of Bioresource Technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Laboratory, Institute Pascal, University Clermont Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France

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