Process Industries 2

Foreword 1 xi
Laurent BASEILHAC
 
Foreword 2 xiii
Vincent LAFLÈCHE
 
Foreword 3 xvii
June C. WISPELWEY
 
Introduction xix
Jean-Pierre DAL PONT and Marie DEBACQ
 
Chapter 1. Bio-industry in the Age of the Transition to Digital Technology: Significance and Recent Advances 1
Philippe JACQUES
 
1.1. Introduction 1
 
1.2. Diversity of products and applications 4
 
1.2.1. Fermentations in agri-food 5
 
1.2.2. Biomass-based products 7
 
1.2.3. Metabolite-based products 7
 
1.3. Traditional process for developing a product of industrial microbiology 8
 
1.4. Strain selection and optimization 10
 
1.4.1. Evolution of strain screening techniques 10
 
1.4.2. Evolution of genetic modification technologies, from random mutagenesis to CRISPR-Cas9 technology 13
 
1.5. Production and purification processes 14
 
1.5.1. Needs of microorganisms 14
 
1.5.2. Production processes 15
 
1.5.3. Downstream fermentation processes (downstream processing, DSP) 18
 
1.5.4. Coupled procedures 19
 
1.5.5. Microfluidic intake (scale-up/scale-down) 20
 
1.5.6. Process intensification 20
 
1.6. Innovative concepts 21
 
1.6.1. Biofilm reactors 21
 
1.6.2. Mixed cultures and cascades of microorganisms 21
 
1.7. Towards a digital bio-industry 21
 
1.8. Acknowledgements 22
 
1.9. Glossary 23
 
1.10. References 29
 
Chapter 2. Hydrogen Production by Steam Reforming 31
Marie BASIN, Diana TUDORACHE, Matthieu FLIN, Raphaël FAURE and Philippe ARPENTINIER
 
2.1. The industrial production of hydrogen 31
 
2.1.1. The processes of hydrogen production 31
 
2.1.2. Natural gas steam reforming 33
 
2.2. Problems and operational constraints in steam reforming units 58
 
2.2.1. Tube temperature and lifetime 58
 
2.2.2. Catalyst deactivation 60
 
2.2.3. Corrosion by metal

Jean-Pierre Dal Pont is the president of the Société des Experts Chimistes de France (SECF). Specializing in process industries, he has been an industrial director in the United States and Asia-Pacific for many years.
 
Marie Debacq is responsible for the AgroParisTech technology platform in France. She was a research lecturer at Cnam (Paris), where her work involved experimental study and modeling of polyphasic reactors.