A Practical Guide to Biotechnology: Design, Manufacture and Applications

This book provides an introductory background on how the application of biotechnology theory to manufacturing for biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, and biobased products. It introduces the reader to the tools needed to solve actual industrial problems. The textbook uses existing manufacturing plants, newly designed labs, pilot plants, and manufacturing plants to examine complex problems and simplify them. Following the the natural flow of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing from start to finish, this text provides a key resource to bioengineers, chemical engineers, and students in these and related fields.