DIVISION OF FOOD SYSTEMS AND BIOENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI Food for the Twenty-First Century Bioprocessing and Biosensing Center Spring 2015 Seminar Series PRESENTER: Dr. Caixia “Ellen” Wan, Assistant Professor MU Department of Bioengineering TITLE: Multipurpose Biorefineries for Advanced Biofuels and Value-Added Co-Products ABSTRACT: Biomass is renewable, domestic, and sufficiently available resources, and has great potential to replace petroleum resources for producing energy, fuels, and chemicals. A viable and sustainable biomass-based refinery, also called biorefinery, offers many societal benefits, such as ensuring energy security, lowering greenhouse gases emission, creating jobs in rural areas, and creating new revenue streams for farmers. A biorefinery consists of multiple stages, i.e. feedstock production and logistics, conversion processes, product upgrading/utilization. Each stage has opportunities and challenges. Production of biofuels and bioproducts in integrated multipurpose biorefineries offers the most cost effective approach to achieving the goal of building a biobased industry. In this seminar, Dr. Wan will present novel paradigms for multipurpose biorefineries with a special focus on biomass conversion. In addition, future opportunities for next generation biorefineries will also be discussed. BIOGRAPHICAL: Ellen Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Missouri. Dr. Wan earned a B.S.E in Food Science and Technology and a M.S. in Fermentation Engineering from the Jiangnan University in China. After her graduation with a master degree in 2004, she worked in industry for two years. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biological Engineering from the Ohio State University in 2011 and completed her postdoctoral research in the Mississippi State University in 2013. Dr. Wan’s current research interests mainly include biomass conversion into biofuels and biobased chemicals, fermentation process and optimization, and bioprocessing for soy-derived materials and polymers. DATE • TIME • LOCATION: Tuesday, Apr 14, 2015, 4:00 PM, 107 Agricultural Engineering Building The Food for the 21st Century (F21C) program at the University of Missouri (MU) was established in the mid-1980's through state funding. The overall goal of the program is to help Missouri food producers and processors maintain their competitive edge in the global marketplace by conducting cuttingedge research in a number of food-related areas. The program involves faculty researchers from multiple colleges including College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; College of Arts and Sciences; College of Engineering; School of Medicine; College of Human Environmental Sciences; and College of Veterinary Medicine. Based on the research emphases, the researchers are grouped into four Clusters: Plant Biotechnology; Animal Reproduction; Bioprocessing and Biosensing Center; and Human Nutrition. Bioprocessing and Biosensing Center was formed in 1986. The Center currently consists of 27 faculty members, plus collaborators, support staff, and graduate students from six departments in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and College of Engineering. These departments include Bioengineering; Food Science; Animal Sciences; Chemical Engineering; Electrical Engineering; and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. This seminar is one of the educational activities in the Bioprocessing and Biosensing Center. Cluster Co-Leaders: Drs. Fu-hung Hsieh and Jinglu Tan Department of Bioengineering, 254 Ag Eng, 1406 E. Rollins Street , Columbia, MO 65211 -5200 Phone: 573.882-7044 Fax: 573.882.1115 For More Information: Linda Little (573-882-7044) F21C Seminar W eb: http://fsb.missouri.edu/seminars/ Bioengineering W eb: bioengineering.missouri.edu/
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