Peter H. Pfromm, Kansas State University , Department of Chemical Engineering

Current Research Areas

CO₂ recovery from flue gas via enzymatic catalysis and electrodialysis
(DOE, with
Carbozyme, Inc.)

Study of fermentation based biofuels
(Kansas State Team, Industrial sponsor)

Reducing the CO₂ footprint and energy demand of bio-ethanol (SunGrant )

Minimum water consumption of bio-ethanol from corn

Energy

Environment

Recovery of organic carbon from sea water by electrodialysis and reverse osmosis
(NSF, with M. Perdue and E. Ingall )

Bio-X

Fumed silica activation of enzymes for catalysis in solvents
(with M. E. Rezac)

Virus filtration using membranes
(Industrial sponsor, with P. Czermak,
L. Passarelli )

www.structbio.uni-freiburg.de

Low trans fatty acid membrane-based hydrogenation of
soybean oil
(USDA, with M. E. Rezac)

Fermentation to produce the porin MSP A
(with S. Bossmann,
M. Niederweis