title: Development of bioreaction engineering.
abstract: In addition to summarizing the early investigations in bioreaction engineering, the present short review covers the development of the field in the last 50 years. A brief overview of the progress of the fundamentals is presented in the first part of this article and the key issues of bioreaction engineering are advanced in its second part.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Technical Chemistry, University of Hannover, Germany. schuegerl@mbox.iftc.uni-hannover.de
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schügerl
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D019149:Bioreactors / Q000266:history*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000266:history*; D018914:Cells, Immobilized; D002616:Chemical Engineering / Q000266:history; D005285:Fermentation; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007218:Industrial Microbiology / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D007700:Kinetics; D012996:Solutions / Q000737:chemistry / Q000266:history
chemical_list: D012996:Solutions