Areas of Expertise
- Biotechnology for tailoring of biocatalyst (microbes) for production of biofuels and bio-products
- Pretreatment of biomass for production of sugars, resins, carbon fibers, food and feed , etc.
- Separation and upgrading into biofuels and biochemicals
- Water reuse and anaerobic digestion of waste and wastewaters
2014/15 publications (out of 322 with review)
- Vandana Rana, Anahita D. Eckard, Birgitte K Ahring 2014. Comparison of SHF and SSF of wet exploded corn stover and loblolly pine using in-house enzymes produced from T. reesei RUT C30 and A. saccharolyticus.Springerplus. Vol. 3, p 516-522.
- V. Rana, A. Eckard, P. Teller and B.K. Ahring 2014. On-site enzymes produced from Trichoderma reesei RUT C30 and Aspergillus saccharolyticus for hydrolysis of wet exploded corn stover and loblolly pine. Bioresource Technology. Bioresour. Technol. Vol. 154, p 282-289.
- Rajib Biswas, Hinrich Uellendahl and Birgitte K Ahring 2014. Wet explosion pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse for enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis.Biomass Bioenergy. Vol. 61, p 104-113.
- Benjamin G. Garrett, Keerthi Srinivas, and Birgitte K. Ahring 2014. Design and Optimization of a Semi-Continuous High Pressure Carbon Dioxide Extraction System for Acetic Acid. J. Supercrit. Fluids. Vol. 95, p 243–251.
- J.A. Iversen and B.K. Ahring 2014. Monitoring Lignocellulosic Bioethanol Production Processes using Raman Spectroscopy. Bioresour. Technol. Vol. 172, p 112–120.
- J.A. Iversen, R.W. Berg and B.K. Ahring 2014. Quantitative Monitoring of Yeast Fermentation using Raman Spectroscopy. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. Vol. 406 (20), p 4911-4919.
- Amy A Boaro, Young-Mo Kim, Allan E Konopka, Stephen J Callister, Birgitte K Ahring 2014. Integrated ‘omics analysis for studying the microbial community response to a pH perturbation of a cellulose-degrading bioreactor culture. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. Vol. 90, p 802–815.
- Annette Sørensen, Julie Juel Andersen, Birgitte K. Ahring, Philip J. Teller, Mette Lübeck 2014. Screening of carbon sources for beta-glucosidase production by Aspergillus saccharolyticus. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. Vol. 93, p 78–83.
- István Weyda, Mette Lübeck, Birgitte K. Ahring, Peter S. Lübeck 2014. Point mutation of the xylose reductase (XR) gene reduces xylitol accumulation and increases citric acid production in Aspergillus carbonarius. J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. Vol. 41 (4), p 733-739.
- Yi Wei, Hanwu Lei, Lu Wang, Lei Zhu, Xuesong Zhang, Yupeng Liu, Shulin Chen, Birgitte Ahring 2014. Liquid–Liquid Extraction of Biomass Pyrolysis Bio-oil. Energy Fuels. Vol. 28 (2), p 1207-1212.
- Junfeng Xue, Nancy G Isern, R James Ewing, Andrei V Liyu, Jesse A Sears, Harlan Knapp, Jens Iversen, Daniel R Sisk, Birgitte K Ahring, Paul D Majors 2014. New generation NMR bioreactor coupled with high-resolution NMR spectroscopy leads to novel discoveries in Moorella thermoacetica metabolic profiles. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. Vol. 98 (19), p 8367-8375.
- Marta Kolasa, Birgitte Kiær Ahring, Peter Stephensen Lübeck, Mette Lübeck 2014. Co-cultivation of Trichoderma reesei RutC30 with three black Aspergillus strains facilitates efficient hydrolysis of pretreated wheat straw and shows promises for on-site enzyme production. Bioresour. Technol. Vol. 169, p 143-148.
- Vandana Rana, Diwakar Rana, Birgitte K Ahring 2014. Process Modeling of Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Wet-Exploded Corn Stover. Bioenerg. Res. Vol. 7 (1), p 450-459.
- Birgitte K. Ahring, Rajib Biswas, Aftab Ahamed, Philip J. Teller, Hinrich Uellendahl 2015. Making lignin accessible for anaerobic digestion by wet-explosion pretreatment. Bioresour. Technol. Vol. 175, p 182-188.
- Benjamin G. Garrett, Keerthi Srinivas, and Birgitte K. Ahring 2015. Performance and Stability of Amberlite™ IRA-67 Ion Exchange Resin for Product Extraction and pH Control during Homolactic Fermentation of Corn Stover Sugars. Biochem. Eng. J. Vol 95, p 1-8.
- Malavika Sinha, Annette Sørensen, Aftab Ahamed and Birgitte K. Ahring 2015. Production of Hydrocarbons by Aspergillus carbonarius ITEM 5010. Fungal Biol. (Accepted).
- Rajib Biswas, Hinrich Uellendahl, and Birgitte K. Ahring 2015. Wet explosion: A feedstock agnostic pretreatment process for lignocellulosic biorefineries.Bioenerg. Res. (Accepted).