Research on Using Food Waste as Energy Source

Posted on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

Animesh Dutta

Research focused on developing alternative energy sources from agri-food waste was featured by CBC News Aug. 21.

Engineering professor Animesh Dutta discussed a project his research team is working on to “cook” agri-food waste. Dutta recently received a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to move the research forward. He studies bioenergy, biomass conversion and biofuels.