The center brings scientists and engineers from across the University and beyond to discover sustainable market penetrating solutions with following features:
- Integrated approaches to energy and food production and environment protection
- Biorefining approach for complete utilization of feedstocks and waste streams
- Focus on scalability and portability for localized/distributed management and conversion
Current research areas:
- Treatment, utilization and valorization of liquid and solid wastes
- Waste problems and opportunities
- Catalytic microwave assisted pyrolysis and gasification of solid wastes
- Integrated system for animal wastewater treatment and utilization
- Non-thermal processes for making clean label food and nutraceutical ingredients from crop residues
- Non-thermal processing of foods
- Non-thermal plasma based nitrogen fixation from air and water
- Inactivation of air-borne pathogens
- Decontamination of seeds
- Destruction of PFAS
- Sustainable animal production systems