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Microbial Factories - Biodiversity, Biopolymers, Bioactive Molecules: Volume 2 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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Microbial Factories - Biodiversity, Biopolymers, Bioactive Molecules: Volume 2 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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This book highlights the efforts made by distinguished scientific
researchers world-wide to meet two key challenges: i) the limited
reserves of polluting fossil fuels, and ii) the ever-increasing
amounts of waste being generated. These case studies have brought
to the foreground certain innovative biological solutions to
real-life problems we now face on a global scale: environmental
pollution and its role in deteriorating human health. The book also
highlights major advances in microbial metabolisms, which can be
used to produce bioenergy, biopolymers, bioactive molecules,
enzymes, etc. Around the world, countries like China, Germany,
France, Sweden and the US are now implementing major national
programs for the production of biofuels. The book provides
information on how to meet the chief technical challenges -
identifying an industrially robust microbe and cheap raw material
as feed. Of the various possibilities for generating bioenergy, the
most attractive is the microbial production of biohydrogen, which
has recently gained significant recognition worldwide, due to its
high efficiency and eco-friendly nature. Further, the book
highlights factors that can make these bioprocesses more
economical, especially the cost of the feed. The anaerobic
digestion (AD) process is more advantageous in comparison to
aerobic processes for stabilizing biowastes and producing biofuels
(hydrogen, biodiesel, 1,3-propanediol, methane, electricity),
biopolymers (polyhydroxyalkanoates, cellulose, exopolysaccharides)
and bioactive molecules (such as enzymes, volatile fatty acids,
sugars, toxins, etc.) for biotechnological and medical
applications. Information is provided on how the advent of
molecular biological techniques can provide greater insights into
novel microbial lineages. Bioinformatic tools and metagenomic
techniques have extended the limits to which these biological
processes can be exploited to improve human welfare. A new
dimension to these scientific works has been added by the emergence
of synthetic biology. The Big Question is: How can these Microbial
Factories be improved through metabolic engineering and what cost
targets need to be met?
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