Microbial Bioprocessing of Agri-food Wastes: Industrial Applications

Microbes are used in large-scale industrial processes to generate metabolites with potential applications in various commercial sectors. This book explores recent advances in the valorization of agri-food waste, discusses the production of bio-products, and highlights the technical and economic aspects of exploring the waste recovery chain.

Format: Hardback
Length: 420 pages
Publication date: 28 April 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Due to their adaptability, simple cultivation, kinetic potential, and capacity to produce metabolites with a wide range of potential applications to a variety of commercial sectors, including the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries, in addition to the potential for agriculture, biomedical, and other fields, microbes are extensively used in large-scale industrial processes. The wide range of enzymes, biofuels, organic acids, amino acids, vitamins, biopolymers, and many other classes of metabolites are among the metabolites of greatest commercial interest, and many of them are produced on an industrial scale.

This book is intended for bioengineers, biologists, biochemists, biotechnologists, microbiologists, food technologists, enzymologists, and related professionals/researchers.

It explores recent advances in the valorization of agri-food waste, provides technical concepts on the production of various bio-products of commercial interest, discusses the main process conditions to overcome the difficulties of using waste as alternative raw materials, introduces technical-economic details on the advantages and disadvantages of exploring the waste recovery chain, and explores the main technological advances in the recovery of residues in functional products.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367625405