Life biotechnological processes

Biotechnological processes, life-cycle assessments for, 24 183 Biotechnology, 3 816 advances in, 13 330 application to agriculture, 13 283 in chemical transformations,... 

Hempel DC (2006) Development of biotechnological processes by integrating genetic and engineering methods. Eng Life Sci 5 443 147... 

All biotechnological processes depend on enzymes - either in whole-cell living systems or isolated out of their biological context. In fact, purified enzymes are established in processing food and textiles and are supplements in feed and detergents - all products of everybody s daily life. Whole-cell systems particularly in the field of specialty chemicals provide a broad range of methods and processes. For many years, enantiomerically pure amino acids for food, feed and pharma industries have been produced by microbial fermentation. Ambitious R D resulted in enzymes especially modified and optimized for a desired chemical reaction such as biocatalysis of optically active amines, alcohols, epoxides and more. ... 

It is essential to have a safe process during the whole bioplastic life cycle. PHB has been described as the first real thermoplastic example obtained from a biotechnological process that is actually biodegradable. Although PHB is stable in a natural environment, its degradability rate is very high under processing and fusion conditions. 

Process Biochemistry. 1966-. Amsterdam Elsevier (1359-5113). Online ScienceDirect. Main topics covered are fermentation, biochemical and bioreactor engineering, biotechnology processes and their life science aspects, biocatalysts, enzyme engineering and biotransformation, downstream processing, modeling, optimization, and control techniques. 

The commercialization of developments in biotechnology will require a new breed of chemical engineer, one with a solid foundation in the life sciences as well as in process engineering principles. This engineer will be able to bring iimovative and economic solutions to problems in health care delivery and in the large-scale implementation of advances in molecular biology. 

Of course, specialized materials constitute only one aspect of chemical engineering in the life sciences. The term life sciences has become about as vague as the term biotechnology. But in the industrial context life sciences for the chemical engineer can be divided into at least two areas processes to synthesize compounds and systems applied for biological results. 

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