Welcome to Bioproducts and Bioenergy Research Laboratory (BBRL), Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University.

Dr. Yebo Li's laboratory (BBRL) is located on Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) campus of The Ohio State University. Dr. Li's research focuses on biomass feedstock logistics; biological and chemical conversion of biomass and processing waste to fuels, chemicals, and polymers; and algae culture for production of biofuels and bioenergy.

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 HIGHLIGHTS 

5/16/2012  The proposals of John Sheets (M.S. Student). Fuqing Xu and Shengjun Hu (Ph.D. Students)   was funded by the OARDC SEEDS program . Congratulations!

4/26/2012 Dr. Jian Shi and Dr. Xioalan Luo from Dr. Li's lab received first place and third place awards in the Research Associate and Postdoctoral Researchers category, respectively on the 2012 annual OARDC conference.  Congratulations!

4/3/2012  Shengjun Hu's (Ph.D. Student) poster “Production and characterization of biopolyols and polyurethane foam from crude glycerol based liquefaction of soybean straw”  received the 2012 Energy Research Poster Session Innovation Award from The University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio (UCEAO). Congratulations!

3/22/2012 Congratulations!  Ratanachat (Siam) Racharaks (new graduate student) has been awarded  the FAES Environmental Graduate Research Fellowship in the amount of $22,000. Stephen Park (Ph.D. Student) has been awarded the Charles E. Thorne Memorial Associateship award in the amount of $18,000.

12/9/2011 Dr. Yebo Li received a grant from USDA NIFA Critical Agricultural Materials Program in the amount of $418,965 for biopolyols and polyurethane coating research. The co-PIs of this project are Dr. Rudolph G. Buchheit, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Dr. Bhvik Bakshi, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

11/8/2011 Dr. Yebo Li is the recipient of the OSU 2011 Early Career Innovator of the Year award. More information.

9/20/2011 "Methods for producing polyols using crude glycerin"  developed by BBRL was awarded US patent on September 20, 2011. More information

6/14/2011  The proposal of Stephen Park (Ph.D. Student)  was funded by the OARDC SEEDS program in the amount of $5,000. Congratulations!

5/18/2011  Stephen Park (Ph.D. Student)  received the 2010-2011 Rev. P T Taiganides - Prof. R E Stewart Memorial Award for his outstanding achievements at the Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, OSU. Congratulations!

4/28/2011 Two members of Dr. Li's team won awards at the OARDC Annual Conference.  Ms. Lo Niee Liew won first place award in the M.S. Student competition and Dr. Zhifang Cui won first place award in the Postdoctoral Researchers competition.  Congratulations! More information.

7/22/2010  Collaborating with TouchStone Research Laboratory, Dr.  Yebo Li and his team received a grant in the amount of $6,239,542 from the US Department of Energy for algae research. More information

5/19/2010  Ms. Caixia (Ellen) Wan received the Henry J. Barre Graduate Study  Award from OSU's Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering. Congratulations!

5/11/2010 Dr. Yebo Li received the 2010 Lumley Research Award from the College of Engineering, The Ohio State University.  

3/29/2010  Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland toured the BBRL on March 29, 2010 and discussed bioenergy research with Dr. Yebo Li and his students. More Information.

3/15/2010  Collaborating with quasar energy group, Dr. Yebo Li received a grant from the USDA SBIR program for the study of solid state anaerobic digestion.

12/18/2009  Collaborating with quasar energy group, Dr. Yebo Li and his team received a $2,000,000 grant from the Ohio Third Frontier Program to commercialize his patent pending iADs technolgoy. More information

10/01/2009  The iADs poster presented by Stephen Park (graduate student of Dr. Li) on the 6th Annual BioOhio Conference received the Most Interesting Commercial Potential award . The co-authors of this poster are Dr. Jiying Zhu and Dr. Yebo Li. More information.

9/23/2009 Dr. Yebo Li (PI) received a grant from the USDA Higher Education Challenge Grants Program in the amount of $459,885 to develop a Biobased Energy Education Materials Exchange System (BEEMS). More information.

8/24/2009  Congratulations! Drew Martin (Undergraduate student from Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, summer intern student in Dr. Li's laboratory) won the first place award of the 2009 OARDC Research Internship Program (ORIP).

 


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