Current Development in Solid State Fermentation

Contents I. General and fundamentals aspects of SSF 1. Introduction/Ashok Pandey Carlos Ricardo Soccol and Christian Larroche. 2. General considerations about solid state fermentation processes/Ashok Pandey Christian Larroche and Carlos Ricardo Soccol. 3. Factors affecting solid state fermentation/Jose A. Rodriguez Leon Carlos R. Soccol Ashok Pandey and Daniel E. Rodriguez. 4. Kinetics in solid state fermentation/Jose A Rodriguez Leon Carlos R. Soccol Ashok Pandey and Daniel E. Rodriguez. 5. Water relations in solid state fermentation/Patrick Gervais. 6. Aspects of design of bioreactors in SSF/G. Giovannozzi Sermanni and Nicola Tiso. 7. Instrumentation and controls in SSF/Wilerson Sturm Dario Eduardo Amaral Dergint and Carlos Ricardo Soccol. 8. Informatics in SSF/Wilerson Sturm Carlos R. Soccol Dario Eduardo Amaral Dergint Jose A Rodriguez Leon and Deiva Canali Navarro Vieira Magalhaes. II. SSF for bulk chemicals and products 9. Production of enzymes/Sudheer Kumar Singh George Szakacs Carlos Ricardo Soccol and Ashok Pandey. 10. Production of organic acids/Carlos R. Soccol Luciana PS Vandenberghe Cristine Rodrigues Adriane Bianchi Pedroni Medeiros Christian Larroche and Ashok Pandey. 11. Production of spores/Sumitra Ramachandran Christian Larroche and Ashok Pandey. 12. Mushroom production/Leifa Fan Carlos Ricardo Soccol and Ashok Pandey. III. SSF for specialty chemicals 13. Gibberellic acid production/Cristina Maria Monteiro Machado and Carlos R. Soccol. 14. Production of antibiotics and other commercially valuable secondary metabolites/Javier Barrios Gonzalez and Armando Mejia. 15. Production of pigments/Julio Cesar de Casrvalho Carlos Ricardo Soccol Sumathy Babitha Ashok Pandey and Adenise Lorenci Woiciechowski. 16. Production of aroma compounds/Carlos R. Soccol Adriane BP Medeiros Luciana PS Vandenberghe Marlene Soares and Ashok Pandey. IV. SSF for miscellaneous applications 17. Solid state fermentation for food and feed applications/Maria A. Longo Francisco J. Deive Alberto Dominguez and M Angeles Sanroman. 18. Agro industrial residues as substrates in SSF/Reeta Rani Singhania Carlos Ricardo Soccol and Ashok Pandey. 19. Preservation of forage crops by solid state lactic acid fermentation ensiling/Zwi G. Weinberg. 20. Potential of vermicomposting technology in solid waste management/Vinod K. Garg Renuka Gupta and Anoop Yadav. Over the period of last two decades there has been significant resurgent in solid state fermentation due to numerous benefits it offers especially on engineering and environmental aspects. SSF has shown much promise in the development of several bioprocesses and products. This resurgent gained further momentum during the last 5 6 years with the development of knowledge base in fundamental and applied aspects. A good deal of information has been generated in the published and patented literature. Several commercial ventures have come up based on SSF in different parts of the world. The book offers a wide coverage on various aspects of solid state fermentation written by the international experts. The contents of the book have been distributed in four parts. Part I deals with the General and Fundamentals aspects of SSF and comprises eight chapters. Part 2 deals with the production of bulk chemicals and products such as enzymes organic acids spores and mushrooms in SSF. Part 3 is on the use of SSF for specialty chemicals such as gibberellic acid antibiotics and other pharmaceutically valuable secondary metabolites pigments and aroma compounds. Part 4 deals with the use of SSF miscellaneous application such as SSF for food and feed applications agro industrial residues as substrates in SSF and the production of silage and vermicompost. All the chapters have incorporated the most significant developments taken place during the last 5 10 years. It is hoped that the book would be useful to the wide range of readers for academic and commercial applications. The book would be useful for the students at PG level.…