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Shijie Liu
Professor
Associate Chair and Professor 10
302 Walters Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210
Phone:
(315) 470-6885/470-6501
Email: sliu@esf.edu
Research Interests
- Bioenergy, biomaterials, sustainability
- Bioengineering: metabolic pathway and kinetics, fermentation
- Chemical Kinetics: surface reactions, chemical pulping, bleaching, chemical treatment
- Mass transfer: Membrane separation, multiscale diffusion, dispersion, convective transport
- Fluid Particle Systems: Fluid transport in porous media, slurry/suspension flow
- Process optimization: Physical/mathematical modeling, optimization
- Fiber properties: Morphological and chemical properties
- Applied Mathematics: Numerical analysis, volume averaging
Graduate Research Projects
- Ethanol fermentation from wood extract sugars and/or wood extracts
- Butanol fermentation from wood extracts and/or wood sugars
- PHA fermentation and recovery using wood extracts as feed stock
- PLA production or lactic acid fermentation from wood extracts and/or wood sugars
- Wood extraction and/or woody biomass extraction
- Fractionation of wood extracts with membrane
- Conversion of woody biomass to platform chemicals by enzyme and bacteria
- Cellulose hydrolysis
- Hydrolysis of wood extracts
- Chemical pulping of woodchips and/or agricultural woody biomass
Current Graduate Advisees
Karin Arens
karens@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Bioprocess Engineering
- Undergraduate Institute: Michigan State University (Chemical Engineering)
Graduate Research Topic
My work aims to improve enzymatic production of cellulases by to optimizing the fermentation conditions and substrate utilization for a given microorganism. This study uses wood extract produced during hot-water pretreatment as substrate to stimulate the enzymes yield. An increment in enzyme production would be a step in the right direction in the efforts to reduce the enzymatic cost and could help the biobased industry become more competitive.
John Buyondo
jpbuyond@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Paper and Bioprocess Engineering
- Undergraduate Institute: MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, KAMPALA U (Food Sciences)
- Previous Graduate Study: XIAMEN UNIVERSITY, PR CHINA (Chemical Engineering)
Graduate Research Topic
My research is focused on production of Poly(lactic acid) from hemicellulosic wood sugars. PLA is a biodegradable and biocompatible polymer with the potential to replace petroleum derived plastics. Successful utilization of wood hemicellulosic sugars in the production of PLA would help in driving the biobased economy more favorable.
Favorite Quote
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie
Michael Garver
mpgarver@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Paper and Bioprocess Engineering
- Previous Graduate Study: Syracuse University (Electrical Engineeri)
Vignesh Gnanavel
vgnanave@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Bioprocess Engineering
Alan Shupe
amshupe@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Paper and Bioprocess Engineering
Zhijun Tan
zhtan@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Paper and Bioprocess Engineering
Yang Wang
ywang52@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Paper and Bioprocess Engineering
- Previous Graduate Study: SUNY-ESF (PBE )
Yuanzhen Wang
ywang40@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Paper and Bioprocess Engineering
Graduate Research Topic
Polyhydroalkanoates (PHAs) are biopolyesters produced by many bacteria as carbon and energy storage compound under nutrient limiting conditions. PHAs have attracted a wide research interest because of their applications in biodegradable plastics and medical uses. Recent developments show that PHA and its related technologies are forming an industrial value chain ranging from fermentation, materials, energy to medical fields. Though compared with the petroleum products, the cost of PHA production is still expensive. One solution for this problem is using inexpensive renewable carbon sources, such as plant oils, molasses, starch, whey, wood extract and other industiral wastes to make PHAs production more economical. Another solution is to find a more enviornmental friendly and more economical method to purify the PHA from cell mass.
Favorite Quote
there is a will, there is a way.
education
2000~2004,Dalian University of Technology. Bachelor
2004~2007, Chinese Academy of Science, Master
2009~present, SUNY-ESF, Ph.D
Yipeng Xie
yixie@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Bioprocess Engineering
Jipeng Yan
jyan02@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Liu
- Area of Study: Paper and Bioprocess Engineering
- Previous Graduate Study: Beijing Forestry University (Pulp and Paper Produ)
Courses
- BPE 230 China Experience
- BPE 336 Transport Phenomena Lab
- BPE 421 Bioprocess Kinetics and Systems Engineering
- BPE 438 / 638 Introduction to Biorefinery Processes
- BPE 440 Bioprocess Kinetics and Systems Engineering Lab
- ERE 621 Bioreaction Engineering
Education
- Ph. D. Chemical Engineering. University of Alberta, Edmonton 1992.
- B. Sc. Chemical Engineering. Chengdu University of Science & Technology (now Sichuan University), P.R. China. 1982.
Professional Experience
- Professor, SUNY ESF, 2010.
- Associate Professor, SUNY ESF, 2007.
- Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, 2005.
- Senior Engineer, Alberta Research Council, 2005.
- Assistant Professor, University of Alberta. 1996 - 2005.
Activities
- Executive editor, Journal of Biobased Materials and BioEnergy, 2009
- Chair, TAPPI Nonwood Fibers Committee, 2009
- Vice Chair, TAPPI Nonwood Fibers Committee, 2008
- Chair, PAPTAC Nonwood Fibres Committee, 2004 – 2007
- Vice Chair, PAPTAC Nonwood Fibres Committee, 2003 - 2004
- Nonwood Symposium Co-Chair: PAPTAC PAPERWEEK, Montreal, Canada 2004, 2005, 2006
Professional Societies
- Tappi – Since 2001. (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, USA).
- AIChE – Since 2005 (American Institute of Chemical Engineers, USA): Forest Products Division; Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division.
- Society for Biological Engineering – Since 2005
- PAPTAC – Since 2001 (Pulp and Paper Technical Association of Canada)
- CSChE – 1996 – 2005 (Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers)
- APEGGA – Since 1994 (The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta)
- Appita – Since 2003.
Sample Publications
S. Liu. 2010 “Woody Biomass: Niche Position as a Source of Sustainable Renewable Chemicals and Energy and Kinetics of Hot-Water Extraction / Hydrolysis” J. Biotech. Adv., 28: 563-582.
H. Deng, L. Lin and S. Liu 2010 “Catalysis of Cu-Doped Co-Based Perovskite-Type Oxide in Wet-Oxidation of Lignin to Produce Aromatic Aldehydes”, Energy & Fuel, 24(9):4797-4802.
T. Liu, L. Lin, Z. Sun, R. Hu, S. Liu. 2010 “Bioethanol Fermentation by Robust Recombinant E. coli FBHW Using Hot-water Wood Extract Hydrolyzate as Substrate” J. Biotech. Adv., 28: 602-608.
Z. Sun and S. Liu. 2010 “Production of n-Butanol from Concentrated Sugar Maple Hemicellulosic Hydrolysate by Clostridia Acetobutylicum ATCC 824”, J. Biomass Bioenergy. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.07.026.
R. Hu, L. Lin, T. Liu, S. Liu, 2010 “Dilute sulfuric acid hydrolysis of sugar maple wood extract at atmospheric pressure”, Bioresource Technology, 101(10): 3586-3594. (doi:10.1016/j.biotech.2010.01.005)
Liu, S., T.E. Amidon and C.D. Wood, 2008 “Membrane Filtration: Concentration and Purification of Hydrolyzates from Biomass”, J. Biobased Materials and Bioenergy, 2(2): 121-134.
Liu, S.; Amidon, T.E.; Francis, R.C.; Ramarao, B.V.; Lai, Y.Z.; and Scott, G.M. 2006 "From Forest Biomass to Chemicals and Energy: Biorefinery Initiative in New York", Industrial Biotechnology, 2(2):113-120.
Liu, S. and Masliyah, J.H. 2005 “Dispersion in Porous Media”, Handbook of Porous Media, 2nd Ed. by K. Vafai.
C. L. Gallant, H. Q. Yin, S. Liu, J.P. Heggers, R.E. Langford, M.E. Olson, D.A. Hart, R.E. Burrell, 2005, “A Comparison of In Vitro Disc Diffusion and Time-Kinetic Assays for the Evaluation of Antimicrobial Wound Dressing Efficacy”, Wound Repair and Regeneration, 13 (4), 412-421.
Ha, Z., Ring, Z. and Liu, S., 2005 “QSPR models for boiling points, specific gravities and refraction indices of hydrocarbons”, Energy & Fuels, 19, 152-163.
Liu, S. 2004 “A Simplistic Mechanistic Model and Effect of Consistency on Alkaline Peroxide Brightening of Mechanical Pulps”, Chem. Eng. Sci., 59, 4375-4381.
Liu, S. 2004 “Parametric Estimation and Error Structure”, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Applications & Algorithms,11, 1-28.
Liu, S. 2003 “Chemical Kinetics of Alkaline Peroxide Brightening of Mechanical Pulps”, Chem. Eng. Sci., 58, 2229-2244
