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Venkatesh Balan
Principal Investigator
University of Houston, Downtown
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7 months ago
Agricultural engineering, bioenergy & bioprocessing, field sensing
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Research links crop production to conversion: biomass pretreatment and fermentation for fuels and chemicals; low-cost field sensing for soil carbon and greenhouse gas flux; and cultivation/harvest strategies that enhance feedstock quality for integrated, circular biorefineries.
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