This new volume focuses on innovative industrial biotechnological processes for the production of value-added industrial compounds in food, fuel, and other related sectors. Highlighting fermentation processes and systems, the volume explores bioconversion technologies for recovering energy and fuel from plant-based nonedible biomass and other organic wastes.

It discusses the roles of biotechnological tools and mechanisms toward biorefinery applications, available fermentation technologies, and advanced engineering for large-scale biomass processing. Dedicated to advancing new developments and approaches in bioreactor designing and characterization, the chapters provide information on recent advances in the catalysis, bioprocess engineering, and downstream processing for environmentally friendly production of valuable biochemicals.

The chapters address the role of biotechnology in agriculture and food industries, in the energy sector, in the bioplastics industry, in healthcare and pharmaceuticals industries, and in manufacturing. Topics include bioprocess engineering for enzymes production, engineering microbial fuels, cyanobacterial cell factories, fungal cell factories, microbial polysaccharides, bacterial nanocellulose, and more.

Industrial Biotechnology: Current Progress and Novel Technologies will serve as an instructive introduction for research on microbiology and efficient utilization utilizing microbial community interventions, providing ideas for research and graduate work and as a reference for scientists, engineers, and scholars in the field and related areas.