CHEMICAL ENGINEERING TRANSACTIONS - VOL.38
Guest Editors: : Enrico Bardone, Marco Bravi, Taj Keshavarz
Copyright © 2014, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.,
ISBN 978-88-95608-29-7 ; ISSN 2283-9216

EDITORIAL

This volume 38 of Chemical Engineering Transactions publishes articles relevant to the research area in Industrial Biotechnology.
The 92 selected articles in this volume cover 4 different macro subjects:

Cell factories
Unit Operation Design and Processing
Production
Biotechnology and art

In a detailed context, widespread topics ranging from molecular biology, genomics, systems biology, bio-nanotechnology and tissue engineering to microbial physiology, cell communication, fermentation and enzyme technology, upstream and downstream processing, scale-up, scale-down, high throughput screening and processing and, bioreactor design are covered for applications in pharmaceutical industry and medical, food, environmental and marine biotechnology.
Although success stories in applied biotechnology have been based on discoveries in basic sciences and their exploitation using engineering and technological breakthrough, today with rapid growth in all sectors of biotechnology, there is great promise for the future of industrial biotechnology in its widest interpretation.
Following these perspectives this Volume provides a forum of the latest key innovations within bio technologies and solutions, it has the unique feature of prominent reference on Industrial biotechnology. So that the focus of this Volume is on novel advances in the biosciences and new multidisciplinary approaches applied to bio-industry at large.

All the articles have been peer-reviewed for acceptance by at least two reviewers, frequently by three and rarely by more (see: Publication Policy) All the articles are identified by a DOI number and will be evaluated for inclusion into SCOPUS and ISI citation databases.

Sauro Pierucci, Jirí J. Klemeš
(CET Editors in Chief)