Academic Press Advances and Applications of Partitioning Bioreactors: Volume 54 (Advances in Chemical Engineering, Volume 54)

Advances and Applications of Partitioning Bioreactors, Volume 54 presents an updated reference in the field of partitioning bioreactors, addressing the relevance of kinetic determination, cell deactivation and transport phenomena from an engineering point-of-view. Topics covered in this new release include Mass transport phenomena in partitioning bioreactors, Modelling and design of partitioning bioreactors, Population balances for partitioning bioreactors, Solid-liquid partitioning bioreactors for industrial wastewater treatment, Multiphase bioreactors in the Food Industry, Multiphase bioreactors in the pharmaceutical industry, Biological treatment of gas pollutants in partitioning bioreactors, Hydrocarbon biodegradation using airlift bioreactors, and more. Contains contributions from experts in their respective areas Updated, state-of-the-art work on partitioning bioreactors Review Presents expertise on bioreactors with a wide range of industrial and environmental applications About the Author Sergio Huerta-Ochoa (PhD, 1993, Reading University, UK) has been part of the Staff of the Biotechnology Department during 35 years at “Autónoma Metropolitana University in Mexico City. He spent a sabbatical year (2007-2008) as an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Biochemical Engineering, University College London, UK. His expertise is mainly focused on engineering of bioconversion processes using whole-cells in partitioning bioreactors. He is Co-author of 48 papers in indexed international journals (h index 14, Scopus-Elsevier, May 2017) and supervised up to 13 MSc and 5 PhD theses. One of these PhD theses titled “Study of mass transfer, kinetic and deactivation of a three phase partitioning bioreactor using whole cells won the Alfredo Sánchez Marroquín 2015 award by the Mexican Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering (SMBB). He is awarded with the “Level II membership of the National Researchers System of Mexico (SNI), and Member of the Mexican Academy of Science since 2014. Carlos O. Castillo-Araiza is full time professor joined in 2010 to the Group of Chemical Engineering from the Department of Hydraulic and Process Engineering at the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico. Castillo-Araiza previously had a two-year postdoctoral position at the Laboratory for Chemical Technology at Ghent University, Belgium. Castillo-Araiza obtained his Master Degree and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico. During his Postgraduate Education, Castillo-Araiza moved to a research stay at the department of Chemical Engineering from Penn State University, United States. Castillo-Araiza made also a one-year research stay (2011-2012) at Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico. Castillo-Araiza has been guest editor of the International Journal of chemical Reactor Engineering, The investigation of reactor engineering, aimed at the modeling and design of chemical processes and products is the core of his research. Castillo-Araiza has co-authored indexed articles and conference papers. Castillo-Araiza has been actively involved in the training of graduate students with the supervision of PhD, MESc and bachelor students. Guillermo Quijano holds an MSc degree in Biotechnology from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico) and a PhD in Biotechnology and Bioengineering from Cinvestav, the center for advanced studies of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Guillermo performed postdoctoral research in the School of Chemistry of Rennes (ENSCR) and the Ecole des mines d'Alès (EMA) in France. From 2011 to 2016, Guillermo performed his lecturing and research activity in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology of the University of Valladolid (Spain). Guillermo is currently a senior researcher at the Engineering Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research focuses on (i) the treatme