Biosurfactants (eBook, ePUB)

Production and Utilization-Processes, Technologies, and Economics
Redaktion: Kosaric, Naim; Sukan, Fazilet Vardar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Biosurfactants can successfully replace and augment the properties of chemically synthesized surface-active agents. This book contains specialty chapters dealing with methods for production of biosurfactants on a laboratory and industrial/commercial scale. It presents novel and proven applications of biosurfactants. The new edition is aimed at actual production and applications of biosurfactants in modern biotechnology, reflecting the advances made since the publication of the first edition. A special chapter is devoted to the overview and evaluation of specific selected patents relating to biosurfactants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040073575
• Artikelnr.: 72282624

Autorenporträt

Naim Kosaric is emeritus professor of chemical and biochemical engineering at Western University, formerly University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, Canada. His more than 30 years of research at UWO has focused on biotechnology. Within his extensive published work (more than 350 scientific papers), numerous projects and publications were also on microbial surface active agents (biosurfactants). Dr. Kosaric received his Dipl. Ing. Degree (1955) in chemical engineering from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and his Ph.D degree in biochemistry (recipient of the Collip Medal for most meritorious Ph. D thesis in medical sciences, 1970) from the University of Western Ontario. Fazilet Vardar-Sukan is a professor in the department of bioengineering at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, and is the founding head of the department. She received her chemical engineering degree from Ege University (1978) and her Ph.D degree in biochemical engineering from University College London, UK (1981). She has 30 years of teaching and research experience and has over 100 publications in bioprocess engineering focusing specifically on scale-up, mass and momentum transfer in bioreactors, and re-utilization of agro-industrial wastes and surpluses for the production of high-added value materials. She is also a recipient of the TUBITAK Incentive Award (1989).

Inhaltsangabe

Section I Production. Types and Classification of Microbial Surfactants.
Sophorolipids: Microbial Synthesis and Application. Biosurfactants versus
Chemically Synthesized Surface-Active Agents. Biosurfactants Produced by
Genetically Manipulated Microorganisms: Challenges and Opportunities.
Production of Biosurfactants from Nonpathogenic Bacteria. The Prospects for
the Production of Rhamnolipids on Renewable Resources: Evaluation of Novel
Feedstocks and Perspectives of Strain Engineering. Utilization of Palm
Sludge for Biosurfactant Production. Bioreactors for the Production of
Biosurfactants. Purification of Biosurfactants. Cost Analysis of
Biosurfactant Production from a Scientist's Perspective. Section II
Applications. Patents on Biosurfactants and Future Trends. Industrial
Applications of Biosurfactants. Biological Applications of Biosurfactants
and Strategies to Potentiate Commercial Production. Perspectives on Using
Biosurfactants in Food Industry. Biosurfactant Applications in Agriculture.
Biosurfactants and Soil Bioremediation. Biosurfactant Use in Heavy Metal
Removal from Industrial Effluents and Contaminated Sites. Index.