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Bioreactors for Health and Sustainability

  • 1st Edition - July 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Joaquim M.S. Cabral, Carlos A.V. Rodrigues, Carla C.C.R. de Carvalho, Frederico C. Ferreira, Francisco Lemos
  • Language: English

Bioreactors for Health and Sustainability describes the basic concepts of chemical and biochemical kinetics, chemical reaction engineering, reactors design, ideal reactors, and ho… Read more

Description

Bioreactors for Health and Sustainability describes the basic concepts of chemical and biochemical kinetics, chemical reaction engineering, reactors design, ideal reactors, and homogeneous and heterogeneous reactors. The book brings together the most significant types of reactors that use molecular (enzymes) and cells biocatalysts for biological applications, which range from enzyme reactors, microbial reactors, plant cell culture and reactors, photobioreactors, cell reactors, reactors for stem cell culture, reactors for tissue and organ engineering, microbioreactors, reactors for cellular agriculture products, to bioreactors for waste-water treatment.

The book elaborates on bioreactors from molecular level enzymes, to microbial, plant, animal and human cells and tissue and organs, and provides sustainable applications in industrial, environmental and health sectors. As such, the book bridges the gap between the Engineering Sciences and Technology and Health Sciences areas.

Key features

  • Provides basic concepts of biological kinetics and bioreaction engineering
  • Includes non-traditional topics in biochemical and biological engineering
  • Addresses cellular agricultural engineering

Readership

Graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, researchers in academia, institutes, and industry in Biological/Biochemical Engineering and Bioengineering

Table of contents

1. Chemical and biochemical kinetics

2. Chemical reactors

3. Enzyme reactors

4. Microbial reactors

5. Plant bioreactors

6. Photobioreactors

7. Reactors for stem cell culture

8. Reactors for tissue and organ engineering

9. Microtechnologies for biological research: From cell culture to drug screening

10. Reactors for cellular agriculture products

11. Bioreactors for waste-water treatment

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

JC

Joaquim M.S. Cabral

Dr Joaquim M. S. Cabral is Professor of Biological Engineering, in the Department of Bioengineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was the founder and current Head of Department of Bioengineering, and the Director of the Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, a Research Laboratory Associated to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education in Portugal. His research aims at contributing to biochemical engineering science through novel developments in Bioprocess Engineering and Stem Cell Bioengineering.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biological Engineering, Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

CR

Carlos A.V. Rodrigues

Carlos A.V. Rodrigues completed a MSc in Biological Engineering in 2007 from Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico and a PhD (Doutoramento) in Bioengineering (Bioengenharia) in 2011 from Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico. Currently is a Senior Researcher at Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Bioengenharia e Biociências (iBB). He published 36 articles in journals and 11 book chapters. He received 2 awards or honors, participates or participated as Principal investigator in 3 projects and as Researcher in 9 projects. He works in the area(s) of Medical and Health Sciences, with emphasis on Medical Biotechnology, and on Biomaterials.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Carla C.C.R. de Carvalho

Carla C.C.R. de Carvalho is currently Associate Professor at IST, Portugal. She has a 5-year Diploma degree in Chemical Engineering, a MSc and a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Portugal; currently Universidade de Lisboa). After 2 post-doctoral grants (at IST, Portugal, and UFZ-Leipzig, Germany), she was hired as Assistant Researcher (2008-2013), Principal Investigator (2014-2019), and Assistant Professor (2019-2023) at IST. She has been doing research in the field of biomolecular and bioprocess engineering, using a multidisciplinary approach involving e.g. bacteriology, lipidomics, culturomics, microscopy and image analysis. She has supervised several post-doc research fellows, PhD and MSc students. She co-authored more than 100 manuscripts and 14 book chapters , she received several awards, and has been included in the “World’s Top 2% Scientists list” since 2017. She has been responsible for research teams in several European and national projects.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

FF

Frederico C. Ferreira

Frederico C. Ferreira completed his Ph.D. in 2004 Chemical Engineering, from Imperial College London (IC), followed by an industrial post-doc with IC and GlaxoSmithKline (2004-2006). He also holds a MBA from New University of Lisbon (2006-2008) and was visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Set-Dec 2009, the L'Institut Européen des Membranes, Montpellier in the summer 2007 and at Politecnico di Milano during his Sabbatical (Feb to Ago 2017). +Frederico C. Ferreira is an Associate Professor at Department of Bioengineering of Instituto Superior Técnico, member of the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience and Associate Laboratory, Institute for Health and Bioeconomy. He has published c.a. 120 SCI papers, c.a 2500 citations, and co-authored 7 patents applications and 5 book chapters. He has received 5 awards and/or honours. Frederico Ferreira current research interests are focused on Tissue engineering, Sustainable separations and biorefineries, and Cellular Agriculture.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal

FL

Francisco Lemos

Francisco Lemos has a Habilitation in Chemical Engineering in 1997 from the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico, PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1989 from the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico, Master's degree in Chemistry of Catalytic Processes in 1984 from the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico and Degree in Chemical Engineering in 1981 from the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico. He is a Full Professor at the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico. Published 118 articles in specialized journals. In his Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific and technological production are: Zeolites; Waste Recovery; Tertiary Recycling; Fuels; Circular Economy; Molecular Modeling; Polymerization; Copolymerization; Kinetic Modeling; Process Modeling; Systems Dynamics; Process Control.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering and CERENA, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal