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Biofilms in Fermentation for the Production of Value-Added Products

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Author	Mahdinia, Ehsan Demirci, Ali
Copyright Year	2020
Description	While biofilm formation in hospitals and food manufacturing industries are not desirable, they can provide some advantages when it comes to the microbial fermentation to produce value-added products. To form biofilms, planktonic cells migrate onto a suitable surface to ultimately form colonies of mature biofilm formations, and they undergo profound morphological and genetic alterations that grant them metabolizing the nutrients and producing metabolites at enhanced levels and rates while providing extraordinary abilities to resist extreme pH, heat, antibiotics, etc. Therefore, bioprocess engineers have constructed biofilm reactors that are composed of a support surface that hosts the mature biofilm formed through passive immobilization in the fermentation broth. Many support materials have been used, ranging from wood pieces and fabric to more sophisticated plastic or ceramic-based composites. Numerous designs and fermentation modes have been implemented to boost the production. Biofilm reactors have been studied to increase the production effectiveness of various value-added products such as alcohols, enzymes, organic acids, antibiotics, polysaccharides, vitamins, and many others. This chapter will cover the fundamentals of biofilm reactors and how they are designed and utilized and furthermore summarize the applications up to date, where biofilm reactors have made a difference and pushed the fermentation technology forward. Book Name: Microbial Biofilms
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DOI	10.1201/9780367415075-6
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2020-11-05
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Microbial Biofilms Value Added Products Fermentation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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