Application fields of fermentation engineering

The application fields of fermentation engineering are very wide, involving the following aspects:

1. Food industry: fermentation process is widely used in food processing, such as bread, yogurt, beer, red wine, soy sauce, tofu, vinegar and so on.

2. Pharmaceutical industry: the use of fermentation process to produce a large number of antibiotics, drugs, such as penicillin, streptomycin, vancomycin, lovastatin and so on.

3. Biopharmaceutical industry: fermentation technology is one of the important production technology of the biopharmaceutical industry, can produce protein drugs, vaccines, genetic engineering products and so on.

4. Chemical industry: the application of fermentation process in the field of chemical industry is mainly the production of organic acids, amino acids, such as lactic acid, acetic acid, glutamic acid, lysine, arginine and so on.

5. Environmental protection engineering: fermentation technology can be used to deal with some domestic wastes and industrial wastewater, such as microbial degradation of heavy metals, organic wastes and so on.

6. Energy industry: fermentation technology in the field of biofuels is mainly used in the fermentation of biomass to produce ethanol, biodiesel and so on.

7. Cellulose industry: microbial fermentation can be applied to the legacy cellulose treatment, such as cellulose into alcohol, acetic acid, acetone and so on.