Industrial Biocatalysis (pan Stanford Series On Biocatalysis)
by Peter Grunwald /
2014 / English / PDF
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Biocatalysis has become an essential tool in the chemical
industry and is the core of industrial biotechnology, also known
as white biotechnology, making use of biocatalysts in terms of
enzymes or whole cells in chemical processes as an alternative to
chemical catalysts. This shift can be seen in the many areas of
daily life where biocatalysts—with their environmentally friendly
properties—are currently employed.
Biocatalysis has become an essential tool in the chemical
industry and is the core of industrial biotechnology, also known
as white biotechnology, making use of biocatalysts in terms of
enzymes or whole cells in chemical processes as an alternative to
chemical catalysts. This shift can be seen in the many areas of
daily life where biocatalysts—with their environmentally friendly
properties—are currently employed.
Drivers are the big societal challenges resulting from concerns
about the global climate change and the need for an assured
energy supply. Modern biocatalysis relies to a large extent on
the tremendous advances in the so-called omics techniques and the
structural elucidation of biomolecules, which have led to
synthetic biology and metabolic engineering as new research
fields with high application potential for the rational design of
enzymes and microbial production strains. In this book, renowned
scientists discuss the actual developments in these research
fields together with a variety of application-oriented topics.
Drivers are the big societal challenges resulting from concerns
about the global climate change and the need for an assured
energy supply. Modern biocatalysis relies to a large extent on
the tremendous advances in the so-called omics techniques and the
structural elucidation of biomolecules, which have led to
synthetic biology and metabolic engineering as new research
fields with high application potential for the rational design of
enzymes and microbial production strains. In this book, renowned
scientists discuss the actual developments in these research
fields together with a variety of application-oriented topics.
