Richard Lab

Tom Richard[1]
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Director, Biomass Energy Center, Penn State University

What we do: Engineer solid-state microbial bioconversion processes for renewable energy and sustainable agroecosystems

Penn State Richard website: http://www.abe.psu.edu/fac/Richard/Overview.htm
Penn State iGEM team: http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:PennState
Penn State Biomass Energy Center: http://www.bioenergy.psu.edu

Richard Lab group

Post Doc

• Hala Chaoui email

Projects: Design and conduct experiments to (1) calibrate flux chamber for use with a photoacoustic sensor to meaaure greenhouse gas emissions; (2) evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from animal waste storage, and test the effect of biofilter types on theses emissions.

Future project: Test the feasibility of scaling down biodigesters.

Reviews: Biolfiters; biodigester exhaust gases remediation techniques, modeling of non-greenhouse gas emissions from animal facilities.

Graduate Students

• Deepti Tanjore

• Farzaneh Razaei

• Marlyse Williams

• Qin Chen

• Scott Shore

Undergraduate Students

• Allie Srebro

• Eric White

• Natalie Shewski

Managing the lab

Notices

Lab meetings: Fall 2006, Friday afternoons

1:30 - 2:30 Lignicellulosic hydrolysis/biofuels/microbial fuel cells
2:30 - 3:30 Everyone, special topics each week
3:30 - 4:30 Greenhouse gas emissions/biogas/compost
4:30 - ???? TGIF