Fermentation Processes: Modeling, Optimization and Control

Dear Colleagues,

Fermentation processes play an important role in the transformation industry, such as food, pharmaceutical, biofuels, industrial metabolites, and so on. As a result, the demand is increasing for high-quality products with low-energy consumption and operational safety, which can operate within the context of the very complex nature of biological systems. This, however, has made process operations difficult, leading to the development of intensive engineering strategies to achieve these performance objectives. Therefore, modeling and simulation tasks for optimization and control purposes in fermentation equipment are incredibly important.

The main goal of this Special Issue is to include the latest developments and advancements in process fermentation technology and bioprocessing to achieve progress in key industrial sectors. Special attention will be given to research topics such as high predictive modeling techniques, detailed process simulations to characterize realizable operating conditions, applications of multiobjective optimization techniques with the newest mathematical techniques, the design of online estimation procedures for process monitoring purposes and new controller designs, and improvements to closed-loop operation performance.

Overall, the aim of this issue is to support the development of sustainability assessment tools to measure the socioeconomic and environmental performance of innovative technical advances for fermentation processes.

Dr. Ricardo Aguilar-López
Guest Editor

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