ABSTRACT
Process intensification has been defined by chemical engineers as “…the development of novel apparatuses and techniques that, compared to those commonly used today, are expected to bring dramatic improvements in manufacturing and processing, substantially decreasing equipment-size/production capacity ratio, energy consumption, or waste production, and ultimately resulting in cheaper, sustainable technologies” (Stankiewicz and Moulijn, 2000). This concept can be easily translated and applied to processes in Biochemical Engineering. This chapter describes a particular type of process-intensifying system, i.e. enzymatic membrane reactors that have been used for some years in the specific area of Enzymatic Engineering.
