Most quantitative engineering theories and calculations rely on acombination of three fundamental concepts: balances (e.g.,mass, elemental, energy, momentum), equilibria (e.g., force,reaction, and phase equilibria), and kinetics (e.g. momentumand mass transfer, reaction and growth kinetics). While balancesand kinetic models have been extensively developed and used inbiotechnology, equilibrium aspects and thermodynamics havereceived relatively little attention thus far. One of the manyreasons why development and design of biotechnologicalprocesses are currently primarily conducted essentiallyempirically and why bioprocesses are frequently not asthoroughly optimised as many chemical processes is the result ofthe lack of fundamental data concerning biomolecularproperties, thermodynamic equilibrium position, formulation ofdriving forces, and energy efficiency relations in biotechnology[4].
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Industrial biotechnology in combination with industrialchemical technology is poised to alter the modern world in thesame way it did in the 20th century. Chemical and biochemicalengineering is the discipline that underpins these achievements(C&BE) [5]. In order to develop better materials, products, andprocesses that benefit society, the discipline applies, among otherthings, the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics, reactionstoichiometry and kinetics, biochemistry, and cell biology as wellas transport phenomena. To put it another way, on a technicallevel, chemical and biochemical (C&B) engineers work with unitoperations for the purposes of chemical and/or biochemicalsynthesis followed by downstream separations, all of which arebased on phenomena like thermodynamics, reactions (chemical,biochemical, or thermal conversions), transport, and so on(mass, heat and momentum). REFERENCES Matsuda Y, Gotfredsen CH, Larsen TO. Genetic characterization of neosartorin biosynthesis provides insight into heterodimeric natural product generation. Org Lett. 2018;20(22):7197-7200.[Crossref] [Google Scholar][PubMed] 2ff7e9595c