Bioprocessing

Bioprocessing can be defined as the improvement and conversion of biological materials into food and non-food (industrial) products.  Engineering skills include heat and mass transfer in post-harvest handling of crops for feed and for fibre, and for biophysical processing of plants for food and neutraceutical uses. At the present time, we have one major research program within this theme area:

Processing agricultural materials  - grain, forage, medicinal plants, fiber, feed, food, energy, manure, agro-forestry

• Utilizing Hemp Fibre for Construction Material, (IHCF)

Faculty

• L. Tabil, Jr. (Assoc. Professor)

• O.D. Baik (Asst. Professor)

• V. Meda (Asst. Professor)

• S. Panigrahi (SFARR Research Chair in Agricultural Material Utilization and Bioprocessing)

Staff

• Bill Crerar (Research Engineer)

• Anthony Opoku (Research Assistant)

Graduate Students

• Adefemi Farinu
• Mohammad Izadifar
• Veronica Loranca Corona
• Xue Li
• Sabyasachi Mishra
• Anup Rana
• Lakshminarayana Reddy N
• Venu Shunmugavel
• Bruno Antonio Siaotong
• Majid Soleimani
• Seyed Shahram Tabaeh Emami
• Ignaci Victoria Thiagarajan
• Ananda Tripathy

Visiting Scholar

• Ozge Sakiyan

Visiting Professor

• Ahmad Ghazanfari

Former Graduate Students

• Balasundaram Ramanadhan
• Samira Dadgar
• Sudhagar Mani
• Nalaini Devi Sabapathy
• Helen Streeton
• Bei Wang

Former Visiting Scholars

• Mahdi Kashani Nejad
• Aminallah Masoumi
• K.A. Taiwo

Associate Graduate Students

• Bijay Shrestha (Dept. of Electrical Engineering)

Bioprocessing Research Facilities

• Ag-Bioprocess Engineering Research Laboratory