Center for Profitable Uses of Agricultural Byproducts (CPUAB)
Center for Profitable Uses of Agricultural Byproducts (CPUAB)
Dr. Conly Hansen
The research being conducted at the CPUAB involves finding profitable uses for food production and processing byproducts and also to further increase value of salable food products. The CPUAB invented an anaerobic digester system based on the induced blanket reactor or IBR that can produce electricity, heat, and soil amendment from manure and food processing waste. Recent research is to use the IBR, other types of bioreactors, and some unique biotechnology to selectively maintain the mix of bacterial cultures in the bioreactors to produce large quantities of hydrogen from agricultural byproducts. A high pressure injector was invented that can be used to increase value of meat, fish, poultry, and other food products. The CPUAB is also doing research to produce nutricuticals from food processing waste.