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
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Sustainable Jet Fuel Based on Lignin
August 2022 | STLE
Lignin-derived jet fuel displays a superior heat of combustion, higher seal swell properties and a much lower aromatic content compared to Jet-A.Bin Yang, professor in the Biological Systems Engineering Department at Washington State University (WSU) in Richland, WA, says, “Besides using jet fuel, other propulsion options such as batteries and fuel cells are not suitable for use in long-distance airplance travel in the near future (less than 30 years). This places the aviation industry in the position of needing to find a sustainable alternative to Jet-A. … » More …
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- Dr. Shulin Chen Receives Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
- Fitria Fnu is working with PNNL researchers to develop sensors that detect refrigerant leaks in air-conditioners.
- Pilot project turns corn waste into jet fuel
- New biojet fuel could be a viable alternative to fossil fuel
- “Sustainable Biofuels and the American Dream”
- Dr. Hanwu Lei Featured by USDA NIFA
- Plastic water bottles may one day fly people cross-country
- Indonesian Fulbright Scholar studying biofuels at WSU Tri-Cities, PNNL
- BSE Faculty Bin Yang Receives Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award
- Graduate Students Selected for PNNL-WSU Distinguished Graduate Research Program
- Research Corner: Dr. Manuel Garcia-Pérez
- Researchers collaborate with youth for science fair projects, encourage interest in STEM
- Effects of Sugars, Furans, and their Derivatives on Hydrodeoxygenation of Biorefinery Lignin‐Rich Wastes to Hydrocarbons
- WSU researchers creating catalyst to improve jet biofuel production
- Waled Suliman Receives 2018 Amazon Catalyst Grant
- “BeeToxx” Receives Awards at the UW Business Plan Competition
- “BeeToxx” Receives Awards at WSU Business Plan Competition
- “BeeToxx” Receives Second Place at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
- Biofuels Digest Features WSU Jet Fuel Research