Science Seminar

 

Dr. Joan Lynam, the program chair for Chemical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University, will describe her methods for converting waste biomass from food processing into products. She and her Biomass Team work with rice husks, sugarcane bagasse, and coffee silverskins. Using hydrothermal carbonization and deep eutectic solvents, these wastes can be converted into fuel pellets, plasticizers for cement and asphalt, and sugars for fermentation into liquid biofuels.