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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Laurent Baseilhac -- Foreword by Vincent Laflèche -- Foreword by June C. Wispelwey -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Bio-industry in the Age of the Transition to Digital Technology: Significance and Recent Advances -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Diversity of products and applications -- 1.2.1. Fermentations in agri-food -- 1.2.2. Biomass-based products -- 1.2.3. Metabolite* based products -- 1.3. Traditional process for developing a product of industrial microbiology -- 1.4. Strain selection and optimization

1.4.1. Evolution of strain screening techniques -- 1.4.2. Evolution of genetic modification technologies, from random mutagenesis* to CRISPR-Cas9 technology -- 1.5. Production and purification processes -- 1.5.1. Needs of microorganisms -- 1.5.2. Production processes -- 1.5.3. Downstream fermentation processes (downstream processing, DSP) . -- 1.5.4. Coupled procedures -- 1.5.5. Microfluidic* intake (scale-up/scale-down) -- 1.5.6. Process intensification -- 1.6. Innovative concepts -- 1.6.1. Biofilm reactors -- 1.6.2. Mixed cultures and cascades of microorganisms

1.7. Towards a digital bio-industry -- 1.8. Acknowledgements -- 1.9. Glossary Archaebacteria -- 1.10. References -- Chapter 2 Hydrogen Production by Steam Reforming -- 2.1. The industrial production of hydrogen -- 2.1.1. The processes of hydrogen production -- 2.1.2. Natural gas steam reforming -- 2.2. Problems and operational constraints in steam reforming units -- 2.2.1. Tube temperature and lifetime -- 2.2.2. Catalyst deactivation -- 2.2.3. Corrosion by metal dusting -- 2.2.4. Flexibility in raw materials of steam reforming units

2.3. Recent industrial developments responding to global warming -- 2.3.1. The role of hydrogen in energy transition (Hydrogen Council 2017) -- 2.3.2. CO2 capture in hydrogen production units -- 2.3.3. The exchanger reactor ("zero steam") -- 2.3.4. Current research interests -- 2.3.5. Other means to provide reaction heat (currently in development) -- 2.4. References -- Chapter 3 Industrialization: From Research to Final Product -- 3.1. Anatomy of a process -- 3.2. Process evaluation -- 3.3. Industrialization process -- 3.3.1. The foundations of industrialization

3.3.2. Realization (project) engineering -- 3.4. The concept of the industrial project -- 3.5. Typical organization of an industrial project -- 3.6. The stages of an industrial project from the engineering perspective -- validations -- 3.7. The tools of engineering project management -- related activities -- 3.7.1. Process conceptualization: making it visible -- 3.7.2. Project management -- 3.7.3. Reporting -- executive summary -- 3.7.4. Other concepts -- 3.8. Process intensification (PI) -- miniaturization -- 3.9. Investment/sales coupling -- modular construction

3.10. Circular industrial economy -- platforms -- centralization -- decentralization

Includes bibliographical references and index.

John Wiley and Sons Wiley Frontlist Obook All English 2020