| Project Title | Start date | Investigators | |
| Food Sustainability with the Forgotten Acorn | 08/01/2018 | Jimmy Gu |
 | Extraction of Glucosinolates by Alternative Methods for Utilization as a Organic Pesticide and Organic Feedstock | 05/01/2018 | Jimmy Gu |
 | Developing Lignocellulosic Nanocomposites from Prairie Cordgrass and Corn Stalks for Smart Packaging Applications | 04/01/2017 | Vance Owens |
 | Oil Extraction from Non-Food Oilseeds for Renewable Bio-Jet Fuel Production | 08/01/2012 | Lin Wei |
 | Techno-Economic Modeling of a Corn Based Ethanol Plant | 06/01/2012 | Christine Wood Pierre Aubert Kurt Rosentrater Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan |
 | Exploring the Effect of Extrusion Processing on Nutritional Quality of the aquafeed | 05/01/2012 | Parisa Fallahi Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan Kurt Rosentrater |
 | Pyrolysis of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles | 03/01/2012 | Christine Wood Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan Kurt Rosentrater |
 | Evaluation of wastewater produced in biomass pyrolysis process | 03/01/2012 | Lin Wei Todd Trooien |
 | The Graduate Certificate Program in Bioenergy and Sustainable Technology | 01/01/2012 | Dan Humburg |
 | Optimize the Growth of Algae and its Downstream Processing | 09/01/2011 | Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan |
 | Cyanofactory Platform to Photosynthetically Produce Advanced Fuels and Chemicals, While Providing Bioregenerative Life Support Services | 07/01/2011 | Gibbons W Zhou RB Gary Anderson Zhengrong Gu K Muthukumarappan |
| Techno-Economic Modeling of a Corn Based Ethanol Plant in 2011 | 06/01/2011 | Christine Wood Pierre Aubert Kurt Rosentrater Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan |
| Pyrolysis of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles | 05/01/2011 | Christine Wood Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan Kurt Rosentrater |
 | Characterization of Protein and Starch Behaviors During the Extrusion Processing | 05/01/2011 | Parisa Fallahi Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan Kurt Rosentrater |
 | Development of High-Value Carbon-Based Absorbents from Thermochemically-Produced Bio-char | 01/01/2011 | Zhengrong Gu K. Muthukumarappan Jum Julson Lin Wei |
| Quantification of Physical and Chemical Properties, and Identification of Potentially Valuable Components from Fuel Ethanol Process Streams | 01/01/2011 | Christine Wood Kurt Rosentrater Zhengrong Gu Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan | |
| Quantification and Modeling the Effect of Extrusion processing on Physical Properties of the DDGS-based Auqadites | 11/01/2010 | Parisa Fallahi Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan Kurt Rosentrater | |
 | Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Agricultural and Forest Residues for Aromatic Fuel Additives | 10/01/2010 | Lin Wei James Julson |
 | Role of extrusion processing on bioavailability of the Aquaculture diets towards optimization of extrusion conditions during Aquafeed production using alternative plant protein sources | 08/01/2010 | Parisa Fallahi Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan Kurt Rosentrater |
 | Renewable Jet Fuel from Lignocellulosic Feedstocks | 05/20/2010 | Lin Wei |
 | Conventional Pyrolysis of Different Feedstocks: Production, Characterization and Upgradation of Bio-Oil and Bio-Char | 2010 | Arulprakash Sivasastri, Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan |
 | Developing a Sustainable Feedstock and Next-Generation Processing Technologies for Biofuels Production | 02/01/2007 | A. Donepudi, C., Karunanithy Chinnadurai, Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan |
 | Developing a Prairie Biorefinery | 02/01/2007 | Karunanithy Chinnadurai, Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan |
 | Develop Sustainable Renewable Energy Systems for Practical Utilization of Bulky Biomass | 02/01/2007 | A. Sivasastri, C., Karunanithy Chinnadurai, Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan |