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BIOREFINERY PROGRAM NEWS
Faculty Exchange Visit from Mexico: Five faculty from biochemical engineering and agricultural engineering at the Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila in Torreon and the Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonia Narro in Saltillo, Mexico will visit UGA between April 15 and 25, 2008. See full story >>
 Terra Preta Research in the Amazon Basin: UGA researchers are studying anthropogenic charcoal enriched soils, among the most productive in the world, to determine the agronomic potential of charcoal and possible opportunities for adopting a biochar system on a global scale. Read more >>
TIES Grant Interns Arrive at UGA: Two students from Mexico have arrived to complete a five month internship that will incorporate lab experience in anaerobic digestion, field visits, and an outreach component. Read more >>
USAID Grant Partners UGA and Mexican Universities in Biofuel Production: A United States Agency for International Development grant awarded to the University of Georgia will create an educational partnership to share expertise in generating fuels from waste materials with academics and professionals in Mexico's livestock industry. Read more >>
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BIOREFINING AND CARBON CYCLING IN THE NEWS
Fueling the Future of Bioenergy
UGA Research Magazine, Fall 2007
Is Algae the Next Energy Source?
Georgia Trend, January 2007
Engineering Solutions for Rising Oceans
UGA Engineering, Fall 2006
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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
US-Mexico TIES Symposium "Energy & Environmental Technologies for Sustainable Development": Join us April 17, 2008 at Driftmier Auditorium, UGA Driftmier Engineering Center. For more details on the symposium please contact K.C. Das at kdas@engr.uga.edu. Download speaker schedule >>
 Innovations at the Interface: This Faculty of Engineering seminar series was hosted Dr. Jerald Schnoor, preeminent scientist from Iowa State University, who gave a talk on Global Warming and the Future of Biofuels. View video >>
UN Climate Change Conference, Bali, December 3-14, 2007: Christoph Steiner, Ph.D., member of the Biorefining and Carbon Cycling Program, was invited by the UNCCD to present research and prospects of soil charcoal amendments to sequester CO2 and restore soil fertility. He stressed that use of charcoal as a soil amendment is not new. He highlighted research and development into the production of biochar (non fuel char use) as a by-product of gasification, with simultaneous sustainable land management and carbon sequestration benefits. He noted that a CDM market could make biochar widely available. View presentation >>
Technologies for Biorefining: Presentation by K.C. Das, Ph.D, P.E., for the 25X25 Meeting in Atlanta, 3 October 2007. View presentation >>
Biorefinery: Integrated System for the Conversion of Biomass to Chemicals, Fuels, and Bio-products: Presentation by K.C. Das, Tom T. Adams, Ryan Adolphson and E. Dale Threadgill. View presentation >>
From Clostridium thermoaceticum to Moorella thermoacetica: By Viewing the Old, We Learn the New: Poster by Steven L. Daniel and Harold L. Drake View poster >>
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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
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. In Press.
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. [Graduate student paper]
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 Press). In: William I. Woods, Wenceslau Teixxeira, Johannes Lehman, Cristhoph Stiener and Antoinette WinklerPrins (eds) Terra Preta Nova: A Tribute to Wim Sombroeck. Springer-Verlaug. Scheduled for publishing November 2007.
Westbrook, M.D., Jr., W.D. Greene, and R.L. Izlar. 2007. Utilizing forest biomass by adding a small chipper to a tree-length southern pine harvesting operation. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry November 2007.
Gaskin, J.W., A. Speir, L.M. Morris, L. Ogden, K. Harris, D. Lee, and K.C. Das. 2007. Potential of pyrolysis char to affect soil moisture and nutrient status of a loamy sand soil. Proceedings of the 2007 Georgia Water Resources Conference. March 27-29, 2007. University of Georgia.
Eiteman, M.A. and E. Altman. 2006. Overcoming acetate in Escherichia coli recombinant protein fermentations. Trends in Biotechnology 24: 530-536.
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