2013 Research Projects
State Funded Projects
Development of Novel High-Value Bio-Based Nanocomposites
- Principle Investigators: Ajay Kumar and Sandeep Harimkar
- Funding Agency: OSU Technology and Business Development Program (TBDP)
Evaluation of Oklahoma Native Algae Strains for Bioproduct Manufacturing
- Principle Investigators: Nurhan Dunford
- Funding Agency: Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST)
Novel Biocatalytic Approach for Upgrading of Pyrolysis Oil to Fuels and Chemicals
- Principle Investigators: Hasan Atiyeh, Ajay Kumar and Clint Aichele
- Funding Agency: Oklahoma EPSCoR NSF Research Infrastructure Improvement
Federally Funded Projects
Biomass-Based Energy Research
- Principle Investigators: Ray Huhnke, Hasan Atiyeh, Danielle Bellmer, Ajay Kumar, Randy Lewis, Eugene Columbus, Ralph Tanner, Mark Wilkins, Francis Epplin and Yanqi Wu
- Funding Agency: USDA-NIFA
Conversion of Eastern Red Cedar to Butanol Using a Novel Biocatalytic Process
- Principle Investigators: Hasan Atiyeh and Mark Wilkins
- Funding Agency: DOT-RITA South Central Sun Grant Program
Decreasing Severity of Switchgrass Pretreatment through Biological Pretreatment
- Principle Investigators: Mark Wilkins, D. Julie Carrier, Michael Buser, Stephen Marek
- Funding Agency: USDA-NIFA-Sun Grant Program
Decreasing Severity of Switchgrass Pretreatment Through Wet Storage and Biological Pretreatment
- Principle Investigators: Mark Wilkins, Michael Buser, D. Julie Carrier
- Funding Agency: USDA-NIFA-SUN Grant Program
Developing a Cost-Effective Technology for Conditioning Biomass-Generated Syngas with In-Situ Bed of Biochar-based Catalysts
- Principle Investigators: Ajay Kumar, Krushna Patil and Scott Frazier
- Funding Agency: DOT-RITA South Central Sun Grant Program
Development of Safflower as a New Biomass Energy Crop for the Lower Great Plains
- Principle Investigators: Dick Auld, Calvin Trostle, Travis Miller, Jason Warren
- Funding Agency:USDA-NIFA SOuth Central Sun Grant Program
Development of Sorghum Mutant Population for Biomass Feedstock Functional Genomics Research in C4 Grasses
- Principle Investigators: Million Tadege
- Funding Agency: USDA-NIFA-AFRI
Identifying Functional Biomarkers for Tillering Train in Switchgrass
- Principle Investigators: Ramamurthy Mahalingam
- Funding Agency: NSF, EPSCOR, REU (Note: Summer 2012)
Identification of Lignin Degrading Genes in Switchgrass
- Principle Investigators: Ramamurthy Mahalingam
- Funding Agency: NSF, EPSCOR, REU
Improving Conversion of Syngas to Biofuels Via Direct Monitoring and Control of CO/H2 in Bioreactors
- Principle Investigators: Hasan Atiyeh and Ning Wang
- Funding Agency: DOT-RITA South Central Sun Grant Program
Increasing Water Yield and Quality Through an Integrated Woody and Herbaceous Biofuel Feedstock Production System
- Principle Investigators:Rodney Will, Christ Zou, Gopal Kakani, David Engle, Ray Huhnke, Daniel Storm, Garey Fox, Chad Penn
- Funding Agency: USDA-NIFA
Multi-Scale Fouling Characterization of Fermented/Hydrolyzed Sweet Sorghum
- Principle Investigators: James Whiteley and Joshua Ramsey
- Funding Agency: USDA-NIFA South Central Sun Grant Program
REU Site: Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainable Biobased Products & Energy Development
- Principle Investigators: Gopal Kakani, Sarah Lancaster, Raymond Huhnke, Ramamurthy Mahalingam, Ramanjulu Sunkar, Hasan Atiyeh, Danielle Bellmer, Nurhan Dunford, Scott Frazier, Carol Jones, Ajay Kumar, Yanqi Wu and Babu Fathepure
- Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Simultaneous Starch and Cellulose Hydrolysis for Whole Stalk Processing of Sweet Sorghum
- Principle Investigators: Danielle Bellmer, Gopal Kakani and Hasan Atiyeh
- Funding Agency: DOT-RITA South Central Sun Grant Program