Product Formation

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Microbial biomass production

  • Nutritional requirements

  • Basic principles of MBP/SCP production

• Microbial enzyme production

  • Strain selection

    • Enzyme properties and taxonomy

    • Enzyme properties and the environment

    • Enzyme properties and the presence of substrate

    • Methods for the isolation of enzyme-producing strains

  • Strain development

  • Strain maintenance

  • Fermentation process

    • Inoculum

    • Medium composition and prepatation

    • Process conditions and equipment

  • Immobilized enzyme technology

  • Enzyme engineering

    • Enzyme stability

    • Energy transfer

    • Enzyme membranes

    • Whole cell membranes

• Fuel and Chemical production

  • Introduction

  • Fuel production

    • Hydrogen

    • Methane or Biogas

    • Bioethanol

  • Chemical production

    • Primary microbial product formation

      • Chemicals from catabolic events

      • Chemicals from biosynthetic events

    • Secondary microbial product formation

      • Polysaccharides

      • Antibiotics