Caixia Wan, Assistant Professor

Department of Bioengineering, University of Missouri

Lecture for Students and Teachers

Title: Bioprocessing for Converting Renewable Resources into Value-Added Products

Time: Jan. 11, 2016, 14:00 am.

Place: 203Room, School of Food and biological Engineering

Introduction to Prof. Caixia Wan:

Dr. Caixia Wan is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Missouri. She received her PhD in Biological engineering from Ohio State University. She worked as postdoctoral Researcher at Mississippi State University in 2012. From 2014, she joins the Department of Bioengineering, University of Missouri. Her research area focuses on bioengineering. Dr. Wan has published more than 30 journal articles and more than 10s presentations in international conferences. Meantime, she is an associate editor for International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Frontier in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. She is a technical reviewer for more than 20 journals, including Green Chemistry, Bioresource Technology, Energy & Fuels, Journal of Membrane Science, Biomass and Bioenergy, etc.

Abstract:

Biomass is renewable, domestic, and sufficiently available resources, and has great potential to replace petroleum resources for producing energy, fuels, and chemicals. A viable and sustainable biomass-based refinery, also called biorefinery, offers many societal benefits, such as ensuring energy security, lowering greenhouse gases emission, creating jobs in rural areas, and creating new revenue streams for farmers. A biorefinery consists of multiple stages, i.e. feedstock production and logistics, conversion processes, product upgrading/utilization. Each stage has opportunities and challenges. Production of biofuels and bioproducts in integrated multipurpose biorefineries offers the most costeffectiveapproach to achieving the goal of building a biobased industry. In this seminar, Dr Wan will present novel paradigms for multipurpose biorefineries with a special focus on biomass conversion. In addition, future opportunities for next generation biorefineries will also be discussed.

(School of Food and Biological Engineering)