Bioenergy & Bioproducts Engineering
Bioenergy & Bioproducts (BBE) scientists work toward advancing science and technologies to convert biomass, including wastes, into useful products, fuels, and fuel additives. Highlights of our research program include:
- Production lipid from lignocellulosics for upgrading into renewable jet fuels, diesel, and gasoline
- Integrated algal fuel production including culture processes and extractions of co-products and lipids
- Anaerobic digestion technologies for producing biogas, co-products, and nutrient recovery
- Multiscale modeling of biorefining processes and systems
- Devise feasible process to deconstruct cellulosic biomass
- Identify pathways to convert lignin to jet fuel
- Biomass thermochemical conversions for producing advanced biofuels, chemicals, and bioproducts
Bioenergy & Bioproducts Engineering In the News
-
Biofuels Digest Features WSU Jet Fuel Research
January 11, 2018 | BiofuelsDisgest, Jim Lane
Back in 2016, researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities landed a National Science Foundation I-Corps grant to explore the market potential of their biojet fuel research. The team had successfully demonstrated a new, water-based process for deconstructing and recovering lignin from biomass and converting it into jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. These could be certified as jet fuel in the future. Lignin, a polymer that makes plants woody and rigid, is a waste product in the biofuels production process.
Bin Yang, WSU Tri-Cities associate professor of biological systems engineering and principal investigator for the grant, holds a patent on the process.
“Our … » More …
Read Story
- Cellulosic Revelation
- WSU Research Gets Closer to Cost-Effective BioFuels
- WSU Tri-Cities team earns CleanTech Big Picture prize at UW business competition
- WSU Tri-Cities team in UW business competition ‘sweet 16’
- Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
- New way to characterize cellulose, advance bioproducts
- Grant funds test of market potential for jet fuel research
- Student represents U.S. at sustainable chemistry school
- Student works to boost renewable energy in Philippines
- WSU faculty member presents at National Advance Biofuels Conference and Expo
- Dr. Hanwu Lei and his research group featured in a top journal
- Ph.D. student earns international prize for heat research
- Research Team Competes for Prize
- Biowaste-to-jet fuel
- Bioresource Technology, Best Paper Award 2015
- Research to be presented at 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting
- Doctoral student travels from China to study biofuels pretreatment technology
- Researchers produce jet fuel compounds from fungus
- Global Case Competition
- Student Earns Top International Sustainability Prize