Harvey W. Blanch

“Engineering Biological Systems: Biochemical and Bioprocess Engineering” outlines the application of engineering principles to microbial and mammalian systems, with an emphasis on design and analysis of biological manufacturing processes. The book provides details on enzyme kinetics and technology, microbial systems for the production of chemicals and biologics, downstream processing of biological materials and design examples. It includes technoeconomic analysis of biological processes and case studies for both established and proposed products. The new edition includes recent advances in systems and synthetic biology, vaccine production and enzyme evolution. It also includes a historical perspective on the development of industrial applications of biotechnology. Each chapter contains relevant problems with a solutions manual available to instructors. It contains an outline of undergraduate and graduate course materials for engineering students in biologically focused areas. It also serves as a reference for researchers in bioengineering and biotechnology.

Within American service sector organizations there exists a gap between understanding customer service quality improvement (QI) theories and applying them. Improving Service Quality in the Global Economy: Achieving High Performance in Public and Private Sectors, Second Edition fills that gap by presenting theory, application models, and cases of successful customer service QI efforts in both the public and private sectors. The book emphasizes the selection and development of strategies for quality improvement in regulated public non-market-driven services such as education, government, and healthcare. This revised edition promotes managerial thinking that integrates QI and Knowledge Management (KM) concepts with leadership principles that enable effective responses to the changing demands of the global economy. The text provides step-by-step guidelines, recommendations, and action plans for implementing quality improvements in service sector industries, which now generate two-thirds of America's GDP. Throughout this volume, cases of successful QI efforts in service industries complement major points in each chapter, offering profiles of global service quality leaders that serve as examples to organizations in the public sector. Current and future managers will gain insight into how the global service quality revolution effects their daily work environments, inspiring improvement in products, services, and support that American companies provide to markets worldwide.

This work provides comprehensive coverage of modern biochemical engineering, detailing the basic concepts underlying the behaviour of bioprocesses as well as advances in bioprocess and biochemical engineering science. It includes discussions of topics such as enzyme kinetics and biocatalysis, microbial growth and product formation, bioreactor design, transport in bioreactors, bioproduct recovery and bioprocess economics and design. A solutions manual is available to instructors only.