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

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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