October 4, 2016 | WSU News, by Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A doctoral student at Washington State University Tri-Cities is one of 15 worldwide, and the only U.S. student, selected to participate in a recent week-long school in Germany about developing safe, reliable chemicals in a sustainable way. “One of the biggest challenges […]
September 28, 2016| Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities In Elmar Villota’s home country of the Philippines, as much as 15 percent of households do not have electricity. Villota, a doctoral student in biological systems engineering at Washington State University Tri-Cities, is motivated to close that gap with renewable energy. “A simple light bulb could make a […]
Biodiesel Magazine, by Ron Kotrba | August 24, 2016 An in-depth review of the National Advanced Biofuels Conference For the first time ever, the National Advanced Biofuels Conference & Expo was co-located with the International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo in 2016, a conference pairing that will become the norm for event organizer BBI International. […]
Dr. Lei’s research work on the co-feeding of lignocellulosic biomass with polymers waste in catalytic pyrolysis is remarkably beneficial for the environment and energy recapture.
Graduate student Brennan Pecha is one of four researchers from about 330 presenting posters to receive the international Frontier-Labs Young Scientist Award for significant contributions to analytical and applied pyrolysis.
April 5, 2016 “Even though Green Esters didn’t win one of the top prizes, they were still incredible competitors and your department should be proud.” – Emily Willeman, Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, Foster School of Business, University of Washington March 31, 2016 In January, a team of researchers in Dr. Shulin Chen’s Bioprocessing & Bioproducts Engineering Lab earned […]
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 […]
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 […]