Discovery advances biowaste-to-jet fuel research By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have figured out a way to successfully convert a common wood byproduct into hydrocarbon molecules that could be used as jet fuel. [read full article] Treated with care: Analyzing a new pre-treatment process for biofuel production […]
Congratulations to Dr. Hanwu Lei and his group members and co-authors who won “Best Paper Award 2015” from Bioresource Technology. The published paper “A review of catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived phenols from biomass pyrolysis” appears among the ten top cited papers contributing to the Bioresource Technology 2014 Impact Factor, receiving 31 citations (Web of Science) during […]
Fifteen graduate students presented their research work as a part of BSysE 598 Graduate Seminar course. Four Best Presentation Awards were presented by Dr. Claudio Stöckle on December 10, 2015. First Place: Shuxiang Liu Second Place: Ellen Bornhorst Third Place: Jungang Wang Fourth Place: Ali Abghari Fourth Place: Mohammad Amini The students received recognition certificates […]
by Sylvia Kantor, CAHNRS News PULLMAN, Wash. – More than $1.7 million was awarded to Washington State University for specialty crop research including berries, potatoes, grapes, tree fruit, onions, carrots and Christmas trees, the Washington State Department of Agriculture announced today. WSU received grants for 10 of the 24 projects funded through the 2015 U.S. […]
Research work by graduate student, Mohammadali Azadfar, under his advisor, Dr. Shulin Chen, has been accepted as one of the top seven topics of lignin-based materials for an oral presentation at prestige AIChE national conference, November 8–13, 2015 in Salt Lake city. Research Title: “Investigation of Nanostructural Characteristics of Lignin-ABA Block Copolymer Aggregates Leading to Use of Micelles As Nanoreactors for […]
September 14, 2015 | Tri-Cities Business News, by Maegan Murray As scientists and engineers work to create more efficient biofuels, there is one step of the process that remains expensive and, in some circumstances, inefficient for large-scale production. One of the most significant challenges of cellulosic bio-refining has been and continues to be the development […]
Congratulations Students! Innu Chaudhary, advised by Dr. Shulin Chen, and Muhammad Azeem Khan, advised by Dr. Claudio Stockle were awarded scholarships at the 2015 CAHNRS Fall Festival. The following students received an award from the GPSA’s Travel and Registration Grant Program for the summer 2015: Shuxiang Liu Carlos Zuniga Seyedehsanaz Jarolmasjed
August 15, 2015 | SCI – Where Science Meets Business Ellen Bornhorst was awarded a Seligman APV Travel Bursary in 2015. She reports on her participation in the 12th International Congress on Engineering and Food (ICEF12), which took place between 14 – 18 June in Québec, Canada. She tells us how ICEF12 was a great platform […]
August 12, 2015 | by Jeffrey Dennison, WSU Tri-Cities PROSSER, Wash. — Washington State University and a private company are testing an unmanned helicopter to blow rainwater off cherries on trees. The 11-foot-long, 141-pound Yamaha RMAX aircraft has been used in to spray rice crops in Japan since 1997. Some 2,500 operate there now. WSU […]
August 11, 2015 | by Jeffrey Dennison, WSU Tri-Cities PROSSER, Wash. – Washington State University is partnering with Digital Harvest Corp. to test an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that could provide a safer, less expensive means to blow rainwater off cherry orchards to avoid fruit losses. Rain can cause splits in the skin of cherries […]