Springer India paperback reprint of the second edition originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2003 (ISBN 9780306473494; DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0767-3). Content identical.

Graduate-level textbook on bioreaction engineering for chemical engineering, biochemistry, and microbiology students. Focuses on the bioreactor and the coupling between cellular reactions and the reactor environment. Covers macroscopic mass balancing, yield coefficients, black box stoichiometries, degree-of-reduction balances, thermodynamics of biochemical reactions, metabolic flux analysis and reaction networks, enzyme kinetics, metabolic control analysis, growth kinetics modelling (unstructured, structured, mechanistic, morphological), population balance equations, bioreactor design (CSTR, plug flow, fed-batch, chemostat), gas-liquid mass transfer, and scale-up of bioprocesses.