OIERP
Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, and Planning
Dr. Joan Lynam
Associate Professor and Program Chair
Departments: Chemical Engineering, Institute for Micromanufacturing, MALT Center
Phone: 318.257.3124
Fax: 318.257.4000
Email: lynam@latech.edu
Office: BMEB 117
Address: 818 Nelson AVE
117
Ruston, LA 71272
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Specialties: Biomass, Engineering Waste to Energy, Biomass Characterization, Sustainable Energy
Research Center: Institute for Micromanufacturing
Research Lab: Waste to Bioproducts Lab, Bogard Hall 116
The Biomass Team is devoted to turning waste materials into products. We have worked with wastes as diverse as rice husks, sugarcane bagasse, corn leaves, and stalks, used sulfuric acid, black liquor from paper mills, lion poop, and shrimp shells. Products we have made from wastes include fuel pellets, cement additives, and oil spill absorbents. We have used processes such as hydrothermal carbonization, deep eutectic solvent dissolution, and pelletization. The team includes both graduate and undergraduate students of several COES majors. Directed elective credits can be obtained by doing research with us and taking the CMEN 450A course.