Roger Ruan

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Professor
[email protected]
+1 612 625 1710
206 BioAgEng Building

1390 Eckles Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States

Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, and Center for Biorefining
Education
  • Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • M.S. in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, China Agricultural University

Areas of Interest

Renewable Engineering and Environment, and Food Engineering

Biography

Dr. Ruan’s research focuses on renewable energy and environment technologies for sustainable development and circular economy. Specifically, he has conducted research and published his findings in the areas of biomass and solid wastes such as plastic wastes pyrolysis and gasification for chemicals, materials, fuels and energy production, municipal, agricultural, and industrial wastewater treatment and utilization through novel anaerobic digestion, microalgae cultivation, and hydroponics, airborne and other pathogen disinfection and pollutant control, innovative catalytic non-thermal plasma, low temperature microwave and pulse microwave, photocatalytic intensive pulse light, and NMR/MRI technologies research, development and applications in nitrogen fixation, food safety assurance, and food quality improvement, and food engineering and various value-added processing, etc. Dr. Ruan is a Fellow of ASABE and a Fellow of IFT, and a top-cited author with an h-index of 69, i10-index of 303, and over 19,000 citations.

Teaching

BBE 4733: Renewable Energy Technologies

Research

Renewable energy and environment technologies for sustainable development and circular economy; Biomass and solid wastes (e.g., plastic wastes) and liquid wastes value-added utilization; and Food engineering.

Select Publications

  • Roger Ruan, Yaning Zhang, Paul Chen, Shiyu Liu, Liangliang Fan, Nan Zhou, Kuan Ding, Peng Peng, Min Addy, Yanling Cheng, Erik Anderson, Yunpu Wang, Yuhuan Liu, Hanwu Lei, Bingxi Li. 2019. Chapter 1 - Biofuels: Introduction, Editor(s): Ashok Pandey, Christian Larroche, Claude-Gilles Dussap, Edgard Gnansounou, Samir Kumar Khanal, Steven Ricke, In Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals, Biofuels: Alternative Feedstocks and Conversion Processes for the Production of Liquid and Gaseous Biofuels (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2019, Pages 3-43.
  • Leilei Dai, Nan Zhou, Hui Li, Yunpu Wang, Yuhuan Liu, Kirk Cobb, Yanling Cheng, Hanwu Lei, Paul Chen, Roger Ruan. 2021. Catalytic fast pyrolysis of low density polyethylene into naphtha with high selectivity by dual-catalyst tandem catalysis. Science of The Total Environment. Volume 771, 1 June 2021, 144995. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.144995.
  • Dongjie Chen, Shuhao Huo, Pengfei Cheng, Yanling Cheng, Nan Zhou, Paul Chen, Yunpu Wang, Kun Li, Peng Peng, Roger Ruan. 2021. Treatment and nutrient recovery from acetophenone based wastewater by an integrated catalytic intense pulsed light and Tribonema sp. cultivation. Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification. Volume 160, March 2021, 108276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2020.108276.
  • Pengfei Cheng, Ruirui Chu, Xuezhi Zhang, Lirong Song, Dongjie Chen, Chengxu Zhou, Xiaojun Yan, Jay J. Cheng, Roger Ruan. 2020. Screening of the dominant Chlorella pyrenoidosa for biofilm attached culture and feed production while treating swine wastewater. Bioresource Technology. Volume 318, December 2020, 124054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2020.124054.
  • Peng, Peng; Schiappacasse, Charles; Zhou, Nan; Addy, Min; Cheng, Yanling; Zhang, Yaning; Anderson, Erik; Chen, Dongjie; Wang, Yunpu; Liu, Yuhuan; Chen, Paul; Ruan, Roger. 2019. Plasma in situ gas-liquid nitrogen fixation using concentrated high-intensity electric field. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 52 (2019) 494001 (8pp) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ab3ea6

Honors and Awards