Dr. Junli Liu is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) and the Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE) at Purdue University. He has been awarded over $650,000 from the USDA and the Indiana Soybean Alliance since. He has been actively teaching two undergraduate courses since 2022: ABE 202 Thermodynamics in Biological Systems and ABE 301 Numerical Modeling and Computation in Biological Engineering. 

Research Areas:  

Agricultural, Biological, and Chemical Engineering, Seaweeds Utilization and Biorefining, Process Intensification, Carbon Sequestration, biorefining, ultrasound technology 

The ongoing projects:

• Biokerosene and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) from ozone cracking of lipids

• Biopolymer synthesis from ozone-cracked lipids intermediates

• Nonthermal ultrasound-mediated separation of aqueous-organic systems: purification of biobutanol from fermentation broth 

• Glycerol carbonate synthesis from soybean oil-derived glycerol