Immobilized Cells: Basics and Applications

by Buitelaar; Bucke; Tramper; Wijffels

• ISBN13: 9780444819840
• ISBN10: 0444819843
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-21
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

This publication contains full papers of both oral and poster presentations of the symposium "Immobilized Cells: Basics and Applications" that was held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 26-29 November 1995. This volume covers recent developments in the field of immobilization e.g.: new support materials, characterization of support materials, kinetic characterizations, dynamic modelling, bioreactor types, scale up and applications are also given. Applications in the field of medicine, fermentation technology, food technology and environmental technology are described. Guidelines for research with immobilized cells. Based on the scientific sessions a strategy of research and methods for characterization of immobilized cells, especially in view of applications are given.The goal was to relate basic research to applications and to extract guidelines for characterization of immobilized cells in view of process design and application from the contributions. The manuscripts presented in these proceedings give an extensive and recent overview of the research and applications of immobilized-cell technology.

Table of Contents

Due to space limitations, only a selected number of papers are listed

Preface

Keynote lecture

Why Immobilize?

physicsDetermination of biofilm diffusion coefficients using micro-electrodes

Fundamentals of dispersion in encapsulation technology

Adhesion of Lactococcus lactis diacetylactis to surfaces

Screening of immobilization materials for anaerobic wastewater treatment

Porous silicone rubber as an immobilization matrix for microbial and mammalian cells: natural immobilization of a mass transfer limited culture environment

Local mass transfer coefficients in bacterial biofilms using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) biofilms

physiology, mass transfer and dynamic modelling

Immobilized-cell growth: diffusion limitation in expanding micro-colonies

Competition and cooperation of microorganisms in a coimmobilized aerobic/anarobic mixed culture

Viability of immobilized cells: use of specific ATP levels and oxygen uptake rates

Nitrification activity of immobilized activated sludge evaluated by respiration rate

Growth and eruption of gel-entrapped microcolonies

Mass transfer limitations in a bioartificial pancreas

Immobilized-cell reactorsScale up of immobilized-cell reactors

PEGASUS: innovative biological nitrogen removal process using entrapped nitrifiers

Applications

Industrial applications of immobilized biocatalysts in Japan

Immobilized cell technology in food processing

Biological sulphate reduction with synthesis gas: microbiology and technology

GuidelinesGuidelines for the characterization of immobilized cells

Index of authors

Keyword index

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