Biological Process Engineering
An Analogical Approach to Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Mass Transfer Applied to Biological Systems
- 752 pages
- 27 hours of reading
This guide offers a practical, design-oriented approach to applying engineering methods to biological systems, focusing on transport phenomena such as fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer. It explores their relevance to various biological systems, including microbial growth in bioreactors, pollutant leaching into groundwater, and food manufacturing chemistry. The content extends beyond traditional applications in medicine and the environment, delving into biotechnology, aquaculture, agriculture, and food processing, encouraging analogical thinking for innovative solutions. Mathematics is minimized, with an emphasis on effective system modeling and a variety of problem-solving techniques. Readers will encounter systems diagrams that compare different transport processes, biological examples across various systems (like metabolic pathways and responses to thermal conditions), design charts, and an extensive collection of parameter value tables unique to this text. This resource is ideal for undergraduate biological engineering students studying transport processes and serves as a valuable reference for practicing engineers. It introduces diverse biological phenomena, acts as a bridge to more theoretical topics, and offers insights into the rapidly evolving field of biological engineering.
