Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts Subsequent Edition

About a book: Excellent book to getting started in bioprocess engineering, specially if your background is not in biological sciences.About the seller: The book was in great shape, as promised. I would definetely buy a book at this place again.

The book came in a perfect condition...I am a chemical engineer and needed something to upgrade my knowledge to the biotech industry as I got work in the industry..this was a perfect buy and it complemented my knowledge and provided me with the details I needed...

Pros: Good layout and order of material. Fairly clear in bridging theory with practice.Cons: Bad binding, had to replace once already. Some of the example questions are put together poorly; i.e. bad data, poor use of equations and material.Overall: 5 stars for effort and material, 1 star for quality and thoroughness = 3 stars overall.

A very in depth textbook on key processes like fermentation, with some basic biology to refresh your memory too.

Some bioprocess books can be very difficult to read with no examples. This book has several examples throughout the text that make it easier.

What I expected. Came in good condition.

Needed this book and the price was the best I found

As an introduction to bioprocess engineering I do not care for this book at all. It isn't student friendly, though it may do better as a shelf reference for those who already know the subject. Concepts are not given enough explicit explanation. For example variables are often introduced in equations and are never explicitly defined or named elsewhere in the text. To compound the problem there isn't master list of variables in the appendices and the reader is supposed to intuit what the author meant.The initial coverage of microbiology is fairly light. As a student who has more experience in biology than most of my classmates I'm studying out of my old microbio book since the explanations and diagrams are so much clearer. Admittedly, microbiology alone is not the main purpose of this text, but that does not help students of engineering rather than biology.The overall feeling I get from this text is that the author knows his subject, but has forgotten what it was like to learn it in the first place.