Based on a graduate course in biochemical engineering, this title provides the basic knowledge needed for the efficient design of bioreactors and offers the relevant principles and data required for practical process engineering, with an emphasis on enzyme reactors and aerated reactors for microorganisms.

Insect Cell Cultures: Fundamental and Applied Aspects is a comprehensive reference work, covering the key issues involved in nearly 30 review papers: cell lines (development, characterisation, physiology, cultivation and medium design); viruses (virus-cell interactions, replication, recombinant construction, infection kinetics, post-translational modification and passage effects); engineering (shear, bioreactors including perfusion, immobilisation, scale-up and modelling, downstream processing); applications; economics and regulatory aspects. For cell biologists, biochemists, molecular biologists, virologists, immunologists and other basic and applied disciplines related to cell culture engineering, both academic and industrial.

Contents:
1. New Methodologies for Multiphase Bioreactors 1: Hydrodynamic and Mass Transfer Characteristics of Multistage Slurry Reactors 2. New Methodologies for Multiphase Bioreactors 2: Image Analysis and Multiphase Bioreactors 3. New Methodologies for Multiphase Bioreactors 3: data Acquisition, Modelling and Control 4. Design and Modelling of Immobilised Biocatalytic Reactors 5. Advances in the Selection and Design of Two-Liquid Phase Biocatalytic Reactors 6. Enzymatic Membrane Reactors 7. Reversed Micellar Bioreaction Systems: Principles and Operation 8. Solid-to-Solid Bioconversions: Batch or Continuous? 9. Solid/Gas Systems, Theory and Applications 10. Biofilm Reactors 11. Pulsing Bioreactors 12. Design of Liquid-Liquid-Solid Fluidises-Bed Bioreactors 13. Flocculation Bioreactors 14. Bioreactor Design For Plant Cell Suspension Cultures 15. Lethal Effects of Bubbles in Animal-Cell Culture 16. A Low-Cost Technology for Entomopathogenic Nematode Large-Scale Production 17. Marine Sponges as Biocatalysts

Insect Cell Cultures: Fundamental and Applied Aspects is a comprehensive reference work, covering the key issues involved in nearly 30 review papers: cell lines (development, characterisation, physiology, cultivation and medium design); viruses (virus-cell interactions, replication, recombinant construction, infection kinetics, post-translational modification and passage effects); engineering (shear, bioreactors including perfusion, immobilisation, scale-up and modelling, downstream processing); applications; economics and regulatory aspects. For cell biologists, biochemists, molecular biologists, virologists, immunologists and other basic and applied disciplines related to cell culture engineering, both academic and industrial.