Optimization and Analysis of the Fermentation Process for Microbial Products: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Fermentation Process Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 2040
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food biotechnology; microbial fermentation engineering; metabolic engineering
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Dear Colleagues,
Fermentation process optimization refers to the improvement of the production, productivity, and conversion rate of target metabolites in the fermenter through the control of operating conditions on the basis of the obtained high-yield strain. The fermentation process is usually carried out in a specific reactor. Since the microbial reaction is a self-catalytic reaction, the microbial cell itself is also a reactor, and all the substances to come out of the microreactor of the cell must pass through the boundary line between the cell and the environment, so that all reactions that occur in the cell (i.e., the biological phase) are closely linked to the environmental condition (i.e., the abiotic phase). The actual biological reaction system is a very complex three-phase system, that is, a mixture of gas, liquid, and solid phases, and the concentration gradient between the three phases varies greatly by several orders of magnitude. Therefore, to optimize such a complex system, an elaborate analysis and study of the fermentation process must be carried out. This Special Issue covers topics such as the following:
- Improvement of the producing strains by irrationality and rationality methods;
- Design and optimization of fermentation media;
- The optimization and control of the fermentation process to maximize production or minimize costs;
- Analyses of the improvement of fermentation process optimization by physiology and omics.
The aim of this Special Issue is to publish both recent innovative research results as well as review papers on the optimization and analysis of fermentation processes for microbial products.
Sincerely,
Dr. Xidong Ren
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- process optimization
- integrated fermentation
- technoeconomic analysis
- artificial intelligence
- artificial neural network
- factorial designs
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
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