People


Faculty Mentor

Praveen Kolar, Ph.D. 

Professor:  Agricultural Waste Management

B. Tech., Sri Venkateswara University, India, 1991

M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, 1995

M.S., Louisiana State University, 2004

Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2008

 


Graduate Students


Nitesh Kasera

 

B.S University of Dhaka, 2016

My Research Goal:

Studying the effect of nitrogen doping on biochar and its ability to remove nitrate and phosphorus from aquacultural wastewater.

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Nur-Al-Sarah Rafsan

B.S University of Dhaka, 2016

My Research Goal:

Determining how to convert poultry litter into biochar to be used for super capacitor applications.

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Undergraduate Students


Victoria Augoustides

 

B.S North Carolina State University, 2022

My Research Goal:

Studying the effects of 5 different treatments on pine bark biochar and creating an adsorbent form p-cresol for the treatment of swine waste water.

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Autumn Sylvestri

B.S North Carolina State University, 2024

My Research Goal:

Identifying and isolating valuable compounds from lignin using different chemical, catalytic, and biological treatments.

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