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:
- Bioenergy and bioproducts
- Algae to liquid fuels and nutraceuticals, wastewater management, integrated aquaponic system for wastewater treatment, fish, vegetables, algae
- Microwave assisted pyrolysis and gasification, fast reactions, pilot systems
- Hydrothermal liquefaction, wet biomass
- Biodiesel from scum and algae/algae oil
- Catalysis
- Catalytic conversion, syngas to liquid fuels, ammonia synthesis
- Upgrading, biocrude
- Biomaterials
- Scalability/portability, distributed
- Waste utilization and remediation
- Food science and engineering
- Safe, nutritional, healthy food ingredients and products
- NMR and MRI
- Physiochemical properties
- Shelf life
- Quality
- Magnetic nano-particle and microbes
- Whole grains – maximize the health benefits
- Non-thermal processes
- Liquid foods
- Solid foods
- Others