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Welcome to Dr. Mani’s Research Program in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Our research group is focused on developing circular and sustainable technologies for maximum utilization of organic materials into high-value chemicals, fuels, and bioproducts, while modeling and assessing the sustainability of agricultural, food and forestry systems.

Our general areas of research are:

  • Application of machine learning tools for bioenergy conversion applications.

  • Circular and sustainable assessments of food and agricultural systems.

  • Climate-smart solutions for food and agricultural systems to drawdown greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Drawdown Georgia)

  • Hybrid process modeling, optimization, and simulation of biomass supply chain management & bioprocess technologies

  • Novel preprocessing (pelleting, briquetting & Granulation) and pretreatment (torrefaction, steam treatment) technologies for biomass/algae

  • Development of high-value food/bioproducts and chemicals from cellulose, micro/macroalgae/seaweeds

  • Development of Cellulose NanoFibrils (CNFs) based food/antimicrobial packaging films

  • Thermochemical conversion (Gasification & Pyrolysis) and liquefaction of biomass & algae

  • Techno-economic and life cycle assessment of drop-in biofuels, bioproducts & chemicals