Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals
Advances in Enzyme Technology

Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals Series

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Biomass, Biofuels and Biochemicals: Advances in Enzyme Technology provides state-of-the-art information on the fundamental aspects and current perspectives in enzyme technology to graduate students, postgraduates and researchers working in industry and academia. The book provides information about the use of enzyme technology as an important tool for biotechnological processes, including food, feed, fuels, textiles, paper, energy and environmental applications. The search for improvements in existing enzyme-catalyzed processes dictates the need to update information on various enzyme technologies. The book gives a snapshot of current practice and research in the area of enzyme technology.

1. Microbial enzymes: An overview
2. Purification of enzymes
3. Enzyme kinetics and modelling of enzymatic systems
4. Thermodynamics of enzyme catalyzed reaction
5. Enzymatic biocatalysis in chemical transformations: A promising and emerging field in green chemistry
6. Current and emerging technologies for the development of novel enzyme catalysis
7. Industrial applications of multistep enzyme reactions
8. Enzyme nanocarriers
9. Immobilized enzymes and their implications
10. Enzyme based biosensors and their applications
11. Enzymes as diagnostic tools
12. Enzymes as analytical tools for the assessment of food quality and food safety
13. Metabolic engineering for the improvement of industrial enzymes
14. Enzyme engineering
15. Recombinant enzymes in food and pharmaceutical industry
16. Tailoring of industrial enzymes
17. Metagenomics and the search for industrial enzymes
18. Bioinformatics of industrial enzymes
19. Enzymes: Emerging trends and future perspectives
20. Global market scenario of industrial enzymes

Academics and researchers at graduate and post graduate level in Chemical and Process Engineering, Environmental science, Sustainability analysis, Electrochemistry, Materials science, Biotechnology, Microbiology, and Molecular biology

Dr. Singh is working in the area of Industrial Biotechnology particularly industrial enzymes, biopolymers, glycoproteins, biofuels, etc. from fungal sources. He has more than 300 publications, including 200 research papers, 5 books, 45 book chapters, and 50 popular articles and has been granted 2 Indian patents. He has many national and international awards to his credit. He is Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India, Association of Microbiologists of India and Mycological Society of India. He was guest editor of Biologia, Indian Journal of Experimental biology and Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2012.
Dr Reeta Rani Singhania is a DBT- Bioscience Energy Overseas Fellow working at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research, IOCL R&D, Faridabad, India. Dr. Singhania obtained PhD in Biotechnology from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India. She has worked at CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, India; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland and Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Her major research interest is in the areas of microbial and enzyme technologies, with current focus on biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass. She has 83 publications, which include 32 papers and 19 book chapters, with >3100 citations and h-index of 21 (Google scholar). She is the recipient of Elsevier Best Paper award in 2007, AU-CBT Excellence award of BRSI in 2008 and IFIBiop Young Scientist award for the year 2013. She has been conferred Best Reviewer certificate from Bioresource Technology journal for two years. She has served as guest editor of Renewable Energy journal for a special issue. She is editorial board member of Biofuel Research Journal. She has received Bioresource Technology, Elsevier Most Cited Paper award for the year 2015. She has received prestigious ‘DBT- Energy Bioscience Overseas Fellowship’ from the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt of India to work on Bioenergy in India.
Professor Ashok Pa
  • Includes current and emerging technologies for the development of novel enzyme catalysis
  • Outlines immobilized enzymes and their implications
  • Refers to enzymes as diagnostic tools
  • Includes metabolic engineering principles for improving industrial enzymes