The Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies performs research on a variety of thermochemical technologies including:
- Gasification
- Fast Pyrolysis
- Bio-oil to fuels
- Catalysis
- Biocatalysis
- Torrefaction of biomass
- Biochar production for agronomic applications and carbon sequestration nutrient recycling between production agriculture and biofuels manufacturing
Academic Partners
- Agriculture and Biological Engineering
- Agronomy
- Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
- Chemistry
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Food Science and Human Nutrition
- Mechanical Engineering
Current Research Projects
- Algae Pyrolysis
- Biochar
- Biomass Pretreatments
- Biopower
- Biorenewables Systems Analysis
- Carbohydrate Pyrolysis
- Fast Pyrolysis Pilot Plants
- Food Methodology for Characterization of Bio-oil
- Gas Analysis of Gasification Streams
- Gasification Technology
- Hot Gas Cleaning
- Hybrid Processing Program
- Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Gasification Streams for DOE Syngas to Synfuels Projects
- Product Distribution from Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass
- Steam/Oxygen Gasification of Biomass for Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Fuels
- Understanding Formation of Pyrolytic Lignin