Bioseparations Engineering: Principles, Practice and Economics

Opportunities are growing to apply separation science to the production of therapeutic compounds, specialty biochemicals, functional food ingredients, environmentally friendly biocatalysts and new bioproducts from renewable sources. This book covers methods, theory and materials that reduce the science of bioseparations to practice in the lab or plant. Examples address purification of biomolecules ranging from recombinant proteins to gene therapy products, with footnotes detailing economics of the products. Topics cover isocratic and gradient chromatography; sedimentation, centrifugation and filtration; membrane system; and precipitation and crystallization.