Kirk Dolan, PhD
Associate Professor
Joint with Food Science and Human Nutrition
135 G.M. Trout Food Science Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1323
(517) 355-8474 ext. 119
Fax: (517) 353-8963
dolank@msu.edu
Professional Profile/Vita
Teaching Courses:
- BE 835 - Analysis of Biological Systems
Research Interests:
- Plant product processing
- Optimization & scale-up of value-added food processes
- Parameter estimation and inverse solutions
- Kinetics of food processes
- Process fingerprinting to model retention of nutraceuticals during extrusion
- Extrusion food processing
- Membrane separations
- Developing statistical and computational methods for food engineering applications
- Using Matlab and finite-element programs (Femlab) for lab-verified computer simulation of food processes
Projects:
- Extrusion of value-added dry bean products.
- Identification of nutraceuticals compounds from inedible parts of plant materials.
- Modeling retention of thiamin, beta-carotene, & anthocyanins during extrusion
- Optimization of hard apple cider fermentation
- Degradation kinetics of nutraceuticals at high temperature / low moisture
- Production, separation and purification of prebiotics from whey lactose
- Reduction of oligosaccharides in dry beans
- Modeling softening kinetics of dry beans
