Description

This research and outreach group seeks to separate useful byproducts from waste streams occurring as a result of business activities or industrial processes to increase the efficiency in the use of resources, create of new products and processes, increase productivity and profitability, create new jobs, and prevent pollution. If byproducts can be made valuable, their environmental impact can be more easily managed. This research and outreach is intended to support state efforts in converting and utilizing industrial, municipal, and agricultural byproducts as value-added products.

Projects

Some of the activities being accomplished by the group include research on liquid and solid state monoculture fermentation processes using byproduct carbohydrates from food processors and forest products industries, utilization of byproduct fats, oils, greases, and other hydrocarbons for the production of fuel and chemicals, adding value to byproduct feathers from poultry processors by mechanical and chemical modification, and bioprocessing of animal waste for the production of bacterial biocontrol agents.

Contact Info

Tom Adams
tadams@engr.uga.edu
706 542-0793

Mark Eiteman
eiteman@engr.uga.edu
706 542-0833

The University of Georgia Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering.
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