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Michigan State University
215 Farrall Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-355-4720
Fax: 517-432-2892
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Wei Liao
Name: Wei Liao
Title: Assistant Professor, Ph.D., P.E.
Phone: (517) 432-7205
Fax: (517) 432-2892
Location: 202 Farrall Hall, MSU, East Lansing
E-mail: liaow@msu.edu
Website: http://www.egr.msu.edu/liao/Research Interests:
- Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials such as straws, corn stover, wood residues etc. to produce mono-sugars.
- High density enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials to enhance sugar yield and sugar concentration.
- Development of innovative anaerobic digestion systems to convert animal wastes to renewable energy and other bioproducts.
- Organic acid production from lignocellulosic materials using fungal fermentation.
- Simulating bioprocesses such as organic acids production, anaerobic digestion, ethanol fermentation etc., considering both technical and economic aspects.
- Genetic modification of yeast to develop a strain that is able to
tolerance high ethanol concentration.
Teaching:
- BE 825 Properties of Biological Materials