Engineering Processes for Bioseparations

The use of biotechnology in chemical synthesis offers up numerous advantages to the engineer in the process industries, but it also presents a number of fundamental challenges and difficulties which impinge directly on separation process requirements. The use of biochemical separations has grown significantly during the past decade, and is especially used in process industries such as healthcare and food processing. However it is becoming increasingly more important in areas such as recycling and waste-water treatment and as industry shifts towards cleaner processes biochemical separations will continue to grow. The two main objectives of this book are to focus on the application of existing separation process techniques to the recovery and purification of biologically derived products and to examine the state of knowledge of new techniques which have future potential. Within these objectives the complexities and breadth of problems associated with biological separations are discussed, specific engineering techniques are featured and their adaptation to biochemical separations are highlighted Content: Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv Contributors , Page vii Chapter 1 - Introduction , Pages 1-4 , L.R. Weatherley Chapter 2 - Introduction to downstream processing , Pages 5-34 , J.M. Liddell Chapter 3 - Molecular recognition , Pages 35-72 , J.H. Cameron Chapter 4 - Protein precipitation , Pages 73-109 , P.R. Foster Chapter 5 - Solid-liquid separation , Pages 110-134 , L. Svarovsky Chapter 6 - Membrane separation processes , Pages 135-165 , G. Bell, R.B. Cousins Chapter 7 - Solvent extraction processes for biological products , Pages 166-201 , J.M. Liddell Chapter 8 - Aqueous two-phase extraction systems , Pages 202-232 , E.H. Stitt, L.R. Weatherley Chapter 9 - Near-critical fluid extraction for biological and food products , Pages 233-257 , L.R. Weatherley Chapter 10 - Electrokinetic separation processes for biochemical products , Pages 258-283 , L.R. Weatherley Index , Pages 285-296 Looking at existing techniques and new technologies for separation processes of biologically-derived products, this book discusses the main unit operations of extraction, solid-liquid operations and membrane separation.