What is it about?
Bioreactors are systems where chemical reactions (involving organisms or active substances derived from them) take place. Many types exist such as batch, a variety of products including chemicals. A company's success at producing specific products depends in part on its ability to control various parameters (like temperatures) and to use appropriate biofilms in the reactors. Biofilms are thick layers of cells used in bioreactors. They start to form when microorganisms like bacteria attach to a surface. After a certain amount of time, this attachment becomes somewhat permanent because the microorganisms produce a sticky polymeric material that anchors them. The resulting thick layers of cells are referred to as biofilms. Examples of biofilm and bioreactor use in industry are provided.
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Why is it important?
The positive application of biofilm has been developed in industries pretty well, since many chemical reactions can occur in biofilms favorably. In this chapter, some concrete examples are introduced. The chapter is just an introduction for the application.
Perspectives
While we have tackled with biofilm research, we have been often asked what kind of positive application biofilms have. The positive utilization generally encourages practical engineers to launch on biofilm related projects. Fortunately, we have some of them. And more in the future, so I expect. This chapter picked up some examples as chemical reactor.
Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu
National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College
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This page is a summary of: Bioreactors in Industries and Biofilm, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14565-5_16.
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