Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016)[2] was an English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Maia, Shardik and The Plague Dogs. He studied modern history at university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterwards, he completed his studies, and then joined the British Civil Service. In 1974, two years after Watership Down was published, Adams became a full-time author.
<p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">Biochemical engineering contributions to fermentation technology can be looked at in many different ways. We can go through the characteristic fermentation process flowsheet and look at the main stages: (i) medium preparation and sterilisation, (ii) inoculum preparation, (iii) reaction (fermentation), and (iv) pretreatment for recovery. Alternatively we can adopt a unit operations approach and collectively examine all activities which have a common basis, heat sterilisation of media, aseptic transfer of fluids, mass transfer (aeration) and so forth.</p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This first volume discusses:</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• Fermentation feedstocks.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• Microbiological and engineering aspects of solid state fermentation.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• Biological basis of productivity in fermentation.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• Sterilisation techniques in fermentation processes.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• Biosensors and nanobiosensors.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">• Recovery and purification of fermentation products. It also include microbial solid state fermentation for future biorefineries.</span></p><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All topics have been covered in a cogent and lucid style to help the reader grasp the information quickly and easily.</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This reference textbook is essential reading for BTech (Environmental Biotechnology/Microbiology/Food Microbiology/Biomedical and Biochemical Engineering) and students pursuing BSc/MSc courses in Biotechnology and Microbiology. Besides students, this book will prove useful to industrialists and consultants in the respective fields.</span></span></p>
