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Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-355-4720
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Kirk Dolan
Name: Kirk Dolan
Title: Associate Professor, PhD. - Joint with Food Science and Human Nutrition
Phone: (517) 355-8474 ext.119
Fax: (517) 353-8963Location: 135 G.M. Trout Food Science Building, MSU, East Lansing
Teaching Courses:
- BE 835 - Analysis of Biological Systems
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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
