Journal
FOOD AND BIOPRODUCTS PROCESSING
Volume 88, Issue C1, Pages 3-11Publisher
INST CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1016/j.fbp.2010.01.003
Keywords
Biocatalysis; Scale-up; Reactors; Process design
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With increasing emphasis on renewable feed-stocks and green chemistry, biocatalytic processes will have an important role in the next generation of industrial processes for chemical production. However, in comparison with conventional industrial chemistry, the use of bioprocesses in general and biocatalysis in particular is a rather young technology. Although significant progress has been made in the implementation of new processes (especially in the pharmaceutical industry) no fixed methods for process design have been established to date. In this paper we present some of the considerations required to scale-up a biocatalytic process and some of the recently developed engineering tools available to assist in this procedure. The tools will have a decisive role in helping to identify bottlenecks in the biocatalytic development process and to justify where to put effort and resources. (C) 2010 The Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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