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Venkatesh Balan is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research activity is primarily situated within the fields of Engineering and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The main subfields of study for their work include Biomedical Engineering, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, and Building and Construction.

Their research covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Algal biology and biofuel production

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Natural products as home-based prophylactic and symptom management agents in the setting of COVID-19" (2020), published in Phytotherapy Research
  • "Strategies to improve solid state anaerobic bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass: an overview" (2021), published in Bioresource Technology
  • "Challenges and opportunities in producing high-quality edible mushrooms from lignocellulosic biomass in a small scale" (2022), published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • "Biogas Production from Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Spent Mushroom Substrate with Different Livestock Manure" (2021), published in Energies
  • "Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass" (2020), published in Journal of Visualized Experiments

Venkatesh Balan frequently collaborates with various co-authors, including Weihang Zhu, Driss Benhaddou, Bruce E. Dale, Maedeh Mohammadi, and Bryan Ubanwa.

Their publications often appear in a set of recurring venues such as Chemical Engineering Journal, Biotechnology Advances, Preprints.org, Bioresource Technology, and Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Best Publications

  • Physical and chemical characterizations of corn stover and poplar solids resulting from leading pretreatment technologies.

    Rajeev Kumar;Gaurav Mago;Venkatesh Balan;Charles E. Wyman

  • Designer synthetic media for studying microbial-catalyzed biofuel production

    Xiaoyu Tang;Leonardo Da Costa Sousa;Mingjie Jin;Shishir P S Chundawat;Shishir P S Chundawat

  • Evaluation of ammonia fibre expansion (AFEX) pretreatment for enzymatic hydrolysis of switchgrass harvested in different seasons and locations

    Bryan Bals;Chad Rogers;Mingjie Jin;Venkatesh Balan

  • ‘Cradle-to-grave’ assessment of existing lignocellulose pretreatment technologies

    Leonardo da Costa Sousa;Shishir P S Chundawat;Venkatesh Balan;Bruce E Dale

  • Multi-scale visualization and characterization of lignocellulosic plant cell wall deconstruction during thermochemical pretreatment

    Shishir P. S. Chundawat;Shishir P. S. Chundawat;Bryon S. Donohoe;Leonardo da Costa Sousa;Thomas Elder

  • Current challenges in commercially producing biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass.

    Venkatesh Balan

  • Restructuring the crystalline cellulose hydrogen bond network enhances its depolymerization rate

    Shishir P. S. Chundawat;Giovanni Bellesia;Nirmal Uppugundla;Leonardo da Costa Sousa

  • Process and technoeconomic analysis of leading pretreatment technologies for lignocellulosic ethanol production using switchgrass.

    Ling Tao;Andy Aden;Richard T. Elander;Venkata Ramesh Pallapolu

  • Microbial lipid-based lignocellulosic biorefinery: feasibility and challenges

    Mingjie Jin;Patricia J. Slininger;Bruce S. Dien;Suresh Waghmode

  • Influence of physico-chemical changes on enzymatic digestibility of ionic liquid and AFEX pretreated corn stover.

    Chenlin Li;Gang Cheng;Gang Cheng;Venkatesh Balan;Venkatesh Balan;Michael S. Kent;Michael S. Kent

  • Lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment using AFEX.

    Venkatesh Balan;Bryan Bals;Shishir P. S. Chundawat;Derek Marshall

  • Hemicellulases and auxiliary enzymes for improved conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to monosaccharides.

    Dahai Gao;Nirmal Uppugundla;Shishir P S Chundawat;Xiurong Yu

  • Process optimization to convert forage and sweet sorghum bagasse to ethanol based on ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) pretreatment.

    Bing Zhi Li;Venkatesh Balan;Ying Jin Yuan;Bruce E. Dale

  • Multifaceted characterization of cell wall decomposition products formed during ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) and dilute acid based pretreatments

    Shishir P.S. Chundawat;Ramin Vismeh;Lekh N. Sharma;James F. Humpula

  • Comparative genomics of xylose-fermenting fungi for enhanced biofuel production

    Dana J. Wohlbach;Dana J. Wohlbach;Alan Kuo;Trey K. Sato;Katlyn M. Potts

  • A comparative study of ethanol production using dilute acid, ionic liquid and AFEX™ pretreated corn stover

    Nirmal Uppugundla;Leonardo Da Costa Sousa;Shishir P. S. Chundawat;Xiurong Yu

  • Review of US and EU initiatives toward development, demonstration, and commercialization of lignocellulosic biofuels

    Venkatesh Balan;David Chiaramonti;Sandeep Kumar

  • Optimization of ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of Miscanthus x giganteus to fermentable sugars.

    Hannah K. Murnen;Venkatesh Balan;Shishir P. S. Chundawat;Bryan Bals

  • Alkali-based AFEX pretreatment for the conversion of sugarcane bagasse and cane leaf residues to ethanol.

    Chandraraj Krishnan;Leonardo da Costa Sousa;Mingjie Jin;Mingjie Jin;Linpei Chang

  • Mixture optimization of six core glycosyl hydrolases for maximizing saccharification of ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) pretreated corn stover.

    Dahai Gao;Shishir P.S. Chundawat;Chandraraj Krishnan;Venkatesh Balan

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce E. Dale
Bruce E. Dale Michigan State University
Mingjie Jin
Mingjie Jin Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Charles E. Wyman
Charles E. Wyman University of California, Riverside
A. Daniel Jones
A. Daniel Jones Michigan State University
Seema Singh
Seema Singh Sandia National Laboratories
Blake A. Simmons
Blake A. Simmons Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael R. Ladisch
Michael R. Ladisch Purdue University West Lafayette
Jian Shi
Jian Shi University of Kentucky
Bruce S. Dien
Bruce S. Dien National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
Bryon S. Donohoe
Bryon S. Donohoe National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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