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Dennis P. Wiesenborn
Professor
North Dakota State University
USA
Biography
Professor Wiesenborn holds a teaching and research position in process engineering for food, biofuels and bioproducts at North Dakota State University, USA, where he has served since 1989. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University (1980) and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University (1989). He also served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Food Engineering Department at University College Cork, Ireland in 1997-98. His teaching and research collaborations have included work with professors and scientists in China, Colombia, India, Ireland, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, and Turkey. Early in his career, he was a chemical engineer for Radian Corporation (Texas) and taught high school science and math in West Africa (Liberia).
Research Interest
Pasteurization of low-moisture foods; Scaled-up processing of/innovative products from agricultural commodities from the Northern Plains; Develop improved methods to evaluate characteristics of agricultural commodities or their derivatives that impact processing and product quality; Determine the effect of storage conditions on processing and product quality; Extraction and conversion of fats and oils from oilseeds, especially for novel uses, bio-based polymers and fuel; Process modeling for renewable products and to quantify processing costs; Processing of canola and other oilseed crops.