Skip to main content

Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

  • 2nd Edition - September 8, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ashok Pandey, Christian Larroche, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Reeta Rani Singhania
  • Language: English

Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Second Edition offers a detailed examination of the latest advanc… Read more

World Book Day celebration

Where learning shapes lives

Up to 25% off trusted resources that support research, study, and discovery.

Description

Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Second Edition offers a detailed examination of the latest advancements in solid-state fermentation. This comprehensive overview covers scientific, technological, and engineering progress within the bioprocessing field. Key topics include bioreactor designs, fermentation processes, genetically modified microbes, process modeling and optimization, extraction techniques, and media preparation. The book's historical perspective, coupled with its discussion on bioprocess systems and kinetics, sets the stage for understanding the fundamentals and applications of solid-state fermentation.

Additionally, the book emphasizes the integration of modern technologies such as artificial intelligence-based modeling and intelligent control systems to meet industry demands and foster future advancements. It serves as an essential resource for researchers and students, providing a single point of reference from laboratory to industrial applications. The text also highlights the importance of key principles for analysis, optimization, and design, ensuring it remains a valuable reference in the field.

Key features

  • Includes advances in the design and scale-up of bioreactors, monitoring and control systems, advances in upstream and downstream processing in SSF
  • Incorporates design and development of fermentation processes such as suitability of experimental design: full factorial, central composite design, Box-Behnken, Plackett-Burman
  • Incudes use of AI/ML in SSF processes

Readership

(Post)graduate students, researchers in academia, professionals in chemical and biochemical engineering, industrial biotechnology, and fermentation technology

Table of contents

Section I: Fundamentals of Solid-state Fermentation

1. Advances in Solid-State Fermentation- An Introduction

2. Porous Characteristics of the Solid Matrix in Solid-State Fermentation

3. Fungal Growth on Solid Substrates

4. Kinetics of the Solid-State Fermentation Process

5. Design of Bioreactors in Solid-State Fermentation

6. Online Monitoring of Solid-State Fermentation Using Respirometry

7. Application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in solid-state fermentation processes

Section II: Applications of Solid-state Fermentation

8. Bioreactors for the Production of Biological Control Agents Produced by Solid-State Fermentation

9. Solid-State Fermentation for the Production of Lipases for Environmental and Biodiesel Applications

10. Solid-State Fermentation for the On-Site Production of Cellulolytic Enzymes and Their Use in the Saccharification of Lignocellulosic Biomass

11. Solid-State Fermentation for the production of beta glucosidases

12. Solid-State Fermentation for the Production of Proteases and Amylases and Their Application in Nutrient Medium Production

13. Solid-State Fermentation for Laccases Production and Their Applications

14. Agricultural Residues as Animal Feed: Protein Enrichment and Detoxification Using Solid-State Fermentation

15. Solid-state Fermentation for the Production of Secondary Metabolites

16. Solid-State Fermentation for the Production of Mushrooms

17. Solid-State Fermentation for Food Applications

18. Solid-State Fermentation for the Production of Biosurfactants and Their Applications

19. Solid-State Fermentation for Vermicomposting

20. Solid-State Fermentation for the Production of Organic Acids

21. Solid-State Fermentation and Plant-Beneficial Microorganisms

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 9, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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 former Director of Polytech Clermont, 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 about 300 documents, including ~150 articles, three patents, 16 book chapters and 35 co-editions of books or journal special issues. He is member of French Society for Process Engineering (SFGP), of the French Society of Biotechnology and of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is also administrator of IBA-IFIBiop and editor of Journal of Food Sciences and Technology.

Affiliations and expertise
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Laboratory, Institute Pascal, University Clermont Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France

CS

Carlos Ricardo Soccol

Professor Carlos Ricardo Soccol is the research group leader of DEBB (Department of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology) at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, with twenty years of experience in biotechnological research and development of bioprocesses with industrial application. He is graduated in Chemical Engineering (UFPR, 1979), Master in Food Technology (UFPR, 1986) and Ph.D. in Genie Enzymatique, Microbiologie et Bioconversion (Université de Technologie de Compiègne,- France, 1992). Postdoctor at Institut ORSTOM/IRD (Montpellier, 1994 and 1997) and at the Université de Provence et de la Méditerranée (Marseille, 2000). He is HDR Professor at Ecole d'Ingénieurs Supériure of Luminy, Marseille-France. He has experience in the areas of Science and Food Technology, with emphasis on Agro-industrial and Agroalimentary Biotechnology, acting in the following areas: bioprocess engineering and solid state fermentation, submerged fermentation, bioseparations, industrial bioprocesses, enzyme technology, tissue culture, bio-industrial projects and bioproduction. He is currently Coordinator of Master BIODEV-UNESCO, Associate Editor of five international journals and Editor in Chief of Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology Journal. Professor Soccol received several national and international awards which include Science & Technology award of the Govt. of Paraná (1996), Scopus/Elsevier award (2009), Dr. Honoris Causa, University Blaise Pascal-France (2010), Outstanding Scientist – 5th International Conference on Industrial Bioprocesses, Taipei, Taiwan (2012), Elected Titular Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2014). He is a technical and scientific consultant of several companies, agencies and scientific journals in Brazil and abroad. He has supervised and formed 96 Master Science students, 48 PhD students and 14 Post-Doctorate Students. He has 995 publications/communications which include 17 books, 107 book chapters, 270 original research papers, 557 research communications in international and national conferences and has registered 44 patents. His research articles until the moment were cited (Scopus DataBase) 5600 Times with Index h=36.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Group Leader, Department of Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology, Federal University of Parana, Brazil

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

View book on ScienceDirect

Read Current Advances in Solid-State Fermentation on ScienceDirect