Dr. Ganti Suryanarayana

Murthy Biological and Ecological Engineering Department

Oregon State University, USA

Email: murthy@engr.orst.edu

Qualifications

2006 Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2003 M.Sc., Food and Agricultural Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India

2001 B.Sc., Agricultural Engineering, North Eastern Hill University, India

Publications (Selected)

1. Kumar, D. and Murthy, G.S. 2011. Life cycle assessment of ethanol production from grass straws using various pretreatment processes.Intl. J. LCA.doi:10.1007/s11367-011-0376-5.
2. Juneja, A., Kumar, D.,Williams, J.D., Wysocki, D.W. and Murthy, G.S. 2011. Analysis of biomass from CRP lands for ethanol production in Paci_c Northwest US. J Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 3:63102 doi:10.1063/1.3658399.
3. Murthy, G.S., Rausch, K.D., Johnston, D.B., Tumbleson, M.E., and Singh, V. 2011. Design and evaluation of an optimal controller for simultaneous sacchari_cation and fermentation process. Appl. Biotechnol. Biochem.doi:10.1007/s12010-011-9406-9.
4. Murthy, G.S., Rausch, K.D., Johnston, D.B., Tumbleson, M.E., and Singh, V. 2011. A simultaneous sacchari_cation and fermentation model for dynamic growth environments. Bioprocess Biosys. Eng.doi:10.1007/s00449-011-0625-9.
5. Kumar, D. and Murthy, G.S. 2011. Impact of pretreatment and downstream processing technologies on economics, energy and water use in cellulosic ethanol production. Biotechnol. Biofuels. 4:27 doi:10.1186/1754-6834-4-27.
6. Kumar, D., Prasad, S. and Murthy, G.S. 2011. Microwave assisted hot air drying of okra. J. Food Sc. and Technol. doi:10.10007/s13197-011-0487-9.
7. Murthy, G.S., Rausch, K.D., Johnston, D.B., Tumbleson, M.E., and Singh, V. 2011. Scaleup and industrial evaluation of a dynamic controller for simultaneous sacchari_cationa and fermentation of corn. Ind. Biotechnol. 7:298-307.
8. Murthy, G.S., Rausch, K.D., Johnston, D.B., Tumbleson, M.E., and Singh, V. 2011. Starch hydrolysis modeling: Application to fuel ethanol Production. Bioprocess Biosys. Eng. 34:879-890.
9. Kumar, D. and Murthy, G.S. 2011. Pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of grass straw for ethanol production in Paci_c Northwest US. Biological Eng. 3:97-110.
10. Sanders, K. and Murthy, G.S. 2010. Life cycle analysis of algae biodiesel. Intl. J. LCA.15:704-714.
11. Murthy, G.S., Sall, E.D., Metz, S.G., Foster, G., and Singh, V. 2009. Fermentation of degermed and debraned corn from di_erent hybrids in dry grind process. Ind. Crops and Products. 29:67-72.
12. Martinez-Amezuca, C., Parsons, C.M., Singh, V., Srinivasan, R., and Murthy, G.S. 2007. Nutritional characteristics of corn distillers dried grains with solubles as a_ected by amounts of grains versus solubles and di_erent processing techniques. Poultry Sci. 86:2624-2630.
13. Murthy, G.S., Rausch, K.D., Johnston, D.B., Tumbleson, M.E., and Singh, V. 2006. Evaluation and strategies to improve fermentation characteristics of modi_ed dry grind corn processes. Cereal Chem. 83:455-459.
14. Murthy, G.S., Singh, V., Johnston, D.B., Rausch, K.D., and Tumbleson, M.E. 2006. Improvement in fermentation characteristics of degermed corn our by lipid supplementation. J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 33:655-660.
15. Murthy, G.S., Townsend, D.E., Meerdink, G.L., Bargren, G.L., Tumbleson, M.E., and Singh, V. 2005. E_ect of aatoxin B1 on dry grind ethanol process. Cereal Chem. 82:302-304.