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Solid-State Fermentation Bioreactors

Publication year: 2006

: 978-3-540-31286-4

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Although solid-state fermentation (SSF) has been practiced for many centuries in the preparation of traditional fermented foods, its application to newer products within the framework of modern biotechnology is relatively restricted. It was c- sidered for the production of enzymes in the early 1900s and for the production of penicillin in the 1940s, but interest in SSF waned with the advances in submerged liquid fermentation (SLF) technology. The current dominance of SLF is not s- prising: For the majority of fermentation products, it gives better yields and is e- ier to apply. It is notoriously difficult to control the fermentation conditions in SSF; these difficulties are already apparent at small scale in the laboratory and are exacerbated with increase in scale.


: Chemistry and Materials Science, Expression, Fermentation, Scale up, applied microbiology, bioreactor design, biotechnology, chemistry, microbiology, physical chemistry, preparation, processing, solid state processing