Congratulations to Dr. Lu-Kwang Ju and Dr. Abdullah Loman for receiving the Archer Daniels Midland Award from the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS). They are recognized for their article in the Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society with the title “Optimization of Enzymatic Process Condition for Protein Enrichment, Sugar Recovery and …
In doing research with soybeans, we need to periodically re-culture the seeds. We are using a special cultivar that is not naturally resistant to fungal attack. This serves as a positive control in testing. Not too many people would want to grow this for normal crop production, therefore it is …
Soybeans are commonly used for their oil and proteins. However, the carbohydrate rich fibers can be converted into fermentation feedstock. This carbohydrate liquid can then be fermented into many different products, including ethanol, butanol, enzymes, succinic acid, etc. Dr. Al Loman and Dr. Ju have written a nice summary of the different technologies in Process …
In our publication, Additive-free harvesting of oleaginous phagotrophic microalga by oil and air flotation, Dr. Hosseini, H.A. Starvaggi and Dr. Ju demonstrate that Ochromonas danica (an oleaginous phagotrophic algae) can be collected by simple air floatation and/or partitioning with oil droplets. In pre-testing, algae cultures contacted with an organic liquid (hexadecane) showed that approximately 71% of …