iSEE Congress Webinar: "Turning Agricultural Waste into Usable Products"
- Event Type
- Seminar/Symposium
- Sponsor
- Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)
- Date
- Nov 9, 2021 12:00 - 1:00 pm
- Registration
- Register here for this Zoom webinar
- Contact
- Tony Mancuso
- tmancuso@illinois.edu
- Views
- 62
- Originating Calendar
- iSEE Sustainability Calendar
The negative economic and environmental effects of agricultural waste can be mitigated through some cutting-edge processes and technologies. Join iSEE for this discussion, moderated by Ximing Cai, Lovell Endowed Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability.
The presentations and panelists are:
-- "Innovative Products Using Biochar Derived from Agricultural Waste Resources," by Thomas Trabold, Research Professor, Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology.
-- “From Biowaste to Transportation Fuel — and Environment-Enhancing Paradigm," by Yuanhui Zhang, Founder Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.