BIOREFINERY PROGRAM NEWS

Dr. K.C. Das testifies in Congressional Hearing May 21, 2009: Dr. KC Das was invited as witness before the US House Committee on Small Business; Hearing on the impacts of outstanding regulatory policy on small biofuels producers and family farmers.
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BIOREFINING AND CARBON CYCLING IN THE NEWS

"UGA licenses technology to make fuel from dead forests and agricultural waste" The Office for the Vice President for Research,UGA, September 15, 2009

With help from UGA's research team, Dalton Utilities plans the nation's first wastewater biodeisel plant The Daily Citizen, Dalton Georgia, July 6, 2009

"Dalton Utilities has partnered with the University of Georgia for the past two years on pioneering research for using algae to treat wastewater and produce fuel"Chattanooga Times Free Press, July 2009

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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

USAID/HED TIES Conference 2009:
Dr. KC Das travelled to Veracruz Mexico to participate in the conference "Call to Action".
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North American Biochar Conference
Dr. KC Das, Christoph Steiner, and other members of the UGA Biorefining Program attended this landmark even; the first biochar conference of this scale in the U.S., in Boulder CO, August 9-12, 2009. View presentation >>

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UGA's groundbreaking conference on Char:2004- The Energy and Carbon Utilization Symposium held at the University of Georgia, June 10-11 2004, brought energy producers and policy makers together with agricultural ecologists, soil scientists, engineers, and private-sector companies from around the world.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Chinnasammy, S., B. Ramakrishnan, A. Bhatnagar, and K.C. Das. 2009.  Biomass production potential of a wastewater alga Chlorella vulgaris ARC 1 under elevated levels of CO2 and temperature.  International Journal of Molecular Sciences 10(2):518-532.
Geller, D.P., T.T. Adams, J.W. Goodrum, and J. Pendergrass. 2007. Storage stability of poultry fat and diesel fuel mixtures: Specific gravity and viscosity. Fuel, 87(1): 92-102.

Kastner, J., Ganagavaram, R., Kolar, P. Teia, A., Xu, Chunbao. 2008. Catalytic Ozonation of Propanal Using Fly Ash and Metal Oxide Nanoparticle Impregnated Carbon. Environmental Science Technology, 42: 556-562.

Zhu, Y., Eiteman, M.A., K. DeWitt, and E. Altman. 2007. Homolactate fermentation by metabolically engineered Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73:456-464.

Gaskin, J.W., K.C. Das, A. Tasistro, L. Sonon, K. Harris, and B. Hawkins. 2007. Characterization of Char for Agricultural Use in the Soils of the Southeastern United States. In: William I. Woods, Wenceslau Teixxeira, Johannes Lehman, Cristhoph Stiener and Antoinette WinklerPrins (eds) Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroeck. Springer-Verlaug.

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