Principles of Fermentation Technology, Second Edition [Paperback]

Peter F. Stanbury (Author), Allan Whitaker (Author), Stephen J. Hall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 12, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0080361315 | ISBN-13: 978-0080361314 | Edition: 2

This second edition has been thoroughly updated to include recent advances and developments in the field of fermentation technology, focusing on industrial applications. The book now covers new aspects such as recombinant DNA techniques in the improvement of industrial micro-organisms, as well as including comprehensive information on fermentation media, sterilization procedures, inocula, and fermenter design. Chapters on effluent treatment and fermentation economics are also incorporated. The text is supported by plenty of clear, informative diagrams.

This book is of great interest to final year and post-graduate students of applied biology, biotechnology, microbiology, biochemical and chemical engineering.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Pergamon; 2 edition (July 12, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0080361315
• ISBN-13: 978-0080361314
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,387,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The "bible" of fermentation, August 22, 2000

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Alex Sotiriadis (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Principles of Fermentation Technology, Second Edition (Paperback)

This book is a must for people interested in fermentation technology and bioprocess engineering. It covers a wide variety of topics: from microbial screening to effluent treatment. In between all the aspects of fermentation are covered: inoculum, sterilization, media development, monitoring and control, aeration and agitation, fermenter vessels and design, downstream processing, economics. I think that anyone in the biochemical engineering/biotechnology field should have it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for fermentation scientists / upstream bioprocess engineers, August 15, 2009

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Ryan K. Hamilton (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Principles of Fermentation Technology, Second Edition (Paperback)

This book is a great reference for ferm scientists with a focus on the more engineering specific aspects of fermentation. It's got good coverage of a lot of old-school topics that are considered "solved problems" and so don't really appear in many contemporary books. It's got good information on oxygen transfer correlations to agitation, and how to measure KLA, for example. There is a pretty good discussion of media composition considerations. There's a good overview of the basics of environmental controls (pH, dO2, etc), and controller methodology. There's also a good overview of fermentor design considerations.

Given that the book is so aimed at the bioprocess engineer, I'd like to have seen a bigger discussion of scale-up / scale-down. That's an area that's always challenging, but there are only a couple of pages devoted to the topic.

If you are a fermentation scientist with an engineering bent, or a manufacturing sciences person tasked with supporting upstream operation, this is probably a must-have book. I haven't found any more current book than this for covering upstream process engineering topics. The book is weak on the molecular biology side, but that's really too big a topic to merge with the process side.

Overall this book brings together a lot of diverse information that's useful to the practicing engineer. You probably have a lot of this information that you will have accumulated over the years, but it's great to have one reference that covers it in a concise way.