renewable resources for production of renewable energy through bioprocess route
has tremendous impact on lowering our energy budget. At the juncture of novel process development, the cost effectiveness and cost input for a bioprocess should be given importance for successful delivery to the society. Bioprocess
engineering must carefully consider more economic route for the production, not
only for new products but also for older products so that the larger fraction of
society gets benefitted.
The major challenge in achieving optimal benefit from the technology is to bring
about the synergistic combination of skills of biology, biotechnology, chemical
engineering, bioprocess engineering and computer science on a single platform. In
future, nanotechnology and information technology will see substantial progress
and expansion of bioprocess engineering and technology.
Finally, it may be added that engineering in the traditional sense of scale up and
cost reduction is not enough. Significant advances and efforts are required for
implementing new ideas other than traditional pathways. An academic policy maker
should take more responsibility of educating young generation of students in different cross fields of bioprocess engineering in a comprehensive manner from a
single platform.
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