Part (I): Biomass and bioenergy.- Chapter 1: Studies on esterification optimization of high FFA content Pongamia oil using Box-Behnken design.- Chapter 2: Lipase-catalyzed Synthesis of Caffeic Acid Bornyl Ester.- Chapter 3: Prospects and potential of Calophyllum inophyllum as a renewable feedstock for biodiesel production.- Chapter 4: Conversion of Biomass to Methanol and Ethanol.- Chapter 5: Scalable Technologies for Lignocellulosic Biomass Processing into Cellulosic Ethanol.- Part (II): Novel technologies of Bioprocess engineering.- Chapter 6: An insight into bioprocess engineering in the field of Pharmacy.- Chapter 7: Role of Biofilms in Bioprocesses: A framework for multidimensional IBM modelling of heterogeneous biofilms.- Chapter 8: Biofunctional nanoparticles for protein separation, purification and detection.- Chapter 9: Conversion of glycerol to valuable products.- Chapter 11: Furfural- A Promising symbiotic business model for Integrated biorefinery.- Part (III): Applications of Biotechnology.- Chapter 12: Role of White Biotechnology in 2G biofuels: Biocatalytic Process Development for the Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass.- Chapter 13: Systems metabolic engineering approach for recombinant protein production in microbial cell factories.- Chapter 14: Immobilized biocatalysts in Bioethanol Production: Scale-up Opportunities for Commercialization.- Chapter 15: Biotechnology for environmentally benign gold production.- Part (IV): Bioreactor Engineering.- Chapter 16: Bioreactor design - principles.- Chapter 17: Bio waste treatment.- Part (V): Transfer learning & IP rights.- Chapter 18: Intellectual property rights in industrial bioprocess engineering.- Chapter 19: Transfer learning combined with high throughput experimentation framework for integrated bio refinery.