Bioenergy Researchers

Agricultural and Extension Education

• Dr. Donald M. Johnson: Engine evaluation of biofueled powered engines.

Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness

• Dr. Michael Popp: Production and marketing alternatives for agricultural producers, economic analysis of processing alternatives for biofuels.

Animal Science

• Dr. Paul Beck: Switchgrass plots and research regarding byproduct feeds.
• Dr. Kenneth Coffey: Use of glycerol as a feedstuff for ruminant animals.
• Dr. Shane Gadberry: Exploring byproducts from ethanol and biodiesel manufacturing as feeds.

Biological and Agricultural Engineering

• Dr. Sreekala Bajwa: Value-added products, biomaterials.
• Dr. Julie Carrier: Co-product extraction from biomass with hot water and the depolymerization of hemicelluloses with emphasis on furfural concentration minimization.
• Dr. Tom Costello: Animal waste management and utilization.
• Dr. Jin-Woo Kim: Bioprocess design and optimization, enzymatic conversions.
• Dr. Samy Sadaka: Gasification, pyrolysis, combustion, biodiesel and ethanol.
Dr. Karl VanDevender: Energy production from manure.

Chemical Engineering

• Dr. Robert E. Babcock: Analytical chemistry of petroleum and biofuel derivitives.
• Dr. Ed Clausen: Biomass conversion to fuels and chemicals.
• Dr. Jerry King: Critical fluid and "green" processing, biomass conversion, biomass conversion technologies, chemical separations.

Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences

• Dr. Robert Bacon: Canola breeding program for biodiesel.
• Dr. Nilda Burgos: Weed control options and irrigation for sweet sorghum.
• Dr. Pengyin Chen: Development of high oil soybeans for biodiesel production.
• Dr. Tommy Daniel: Feedstock preparation and processing.
• Dr. Jason Kelley: Production practices of corn, grain sorghum, and a limited program on sweet sorghum.
• Dr. Larry Purcell: Exploring sunflower production in Arkansas. 
• Dr. Andrew Sharpley: Collaborating with Dr. Chuck West on the synergistic use of poultry litter in switchgrass production in NW Arkansas and NE Oklahoma.
• Dr. Nathan Slaton: Trials with canola to investigate/develop crop fertilization recommendations. 
• Dr. Chuck West: Switchgrass trials to test varieties for biomass production, determine effective weed control methods, and study changes in biomass accumulation and nutrient uptake.

Food Science

• Dr. Rubén Morawicki: Use of by-products and co-products of the food industry to produce biofuels and biobased products.
• Dr. Andrew Proctor: Lipid chemistry, rice hull utilization,biorenewables.
• Dr. Steven Ricke: Microbial contamination in ethanol production.

Forest Resources

• Dr. Hal Liechty: Feedstock production using trees and switchgrass in agroforest systems - impact on water quality, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem services.
• Dr. Sayeed Mehmood: Bioenergy, optimum incentives and sustainability of non-industrial private forests.
• Dr. David Patterson: Co-products from forestry resources.
• Dr. Matthew Pelkki: In-forest residues and mill residues for biorefineries.

Plant Pathology

• Dr. Dave TeBeest: Diseases of grain sorghum and corn.

Poultry Science

• Dr. Kris Brye: Investigating the soil carbon sequestration potential of various soils under various cropping systems in order to help assess the environmental effects of the continual removal of residues for biofuel production.

Precision Agriculture

• Dr. Jeremy Ross: Exploring whether canola and other seed crops can be grown in Arkansas for biodiesel production. 

If you know of others involved in bioenergy research that we don't have listed here, please email EnergyInfo@ArkansasEDC.com and let us know.