Bo Hu

Professor
316 BioAgEng Building
1390 Eckles Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108
bhu@umn.edu
+1 612 625 4215
Bo Hu's Bioproccessing Group

Education

  • Ph.D. - Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University. 2007.
  • M.S. - Biochemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. 2003.
  • B.A. - Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. 2000.
Bo Hu, Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest

  • Anaerobic digestion and nutrient management
  • Bioconversion and bioprocess development
  • Synthetic ecology and cell immobilization
  • Microbial eletrochemical systems
  • Bio-based materials and biomass utilization

Teaching

  • BBE 2002: Introduction to Engineering Design
  • BBE 3033: Material and Energy Balance in Energy Systems
  • BBE 4502: Capstone Design

Select Publications

  • Mi Yan, Gaurav Kandlika, Larry Jacobson, Chuck Clanton, Bo Hu, 2014, Lab Simulation to Determine the Factors Affecting Swine Manure Foaming, Trans of ASABE (In press)
  • Yan Yang, Mi Yan, Bo Hu, 2014, Endophytic Fungal Strains of Soybean for Lipid Production, Bioenergy Research, 7(1), 353-361
  • Jianguo Zhang, Bo Hu, 2012, A Novel Method to Harvest Microalgae Via Co-Culture of Filamentous Fungi to Form Cell Pellets, Bioresource Technology, 114:529-535
  • Jianguo Zhang, Bo Hu, 2012, Solid-State Fermentation of Mortierella isabellina for Lipid Production from Soybean Hull, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 166(4):1034-1046
  • Chunjie Xia, Jianguo Zhang, Weidong Zhang, Bo Hu, 2011, A New Cultivation Method for Bioenergy Production: Cell Pelletization and Lipid Accumulation by Mucor circinelloides, Biotechnology for Biofuels, 4:15
  • Tamarys Heredia-Arroyo, Wei Wei, Roger Ruan, Bo Hu, 2011, Mixotrophic Cultivation of Chlorella vulgaris and its Potential Application for the Oil Accumulation from Non-sugar Materials, Biomass and Bioenergy, 35(5): 2245-2253
  • Tamarys Heredia-Arroyo, Wei Wei, Bo Hu, 2010, Oil accumulation from waste via heterotrophic/mixotrophic Chlorella protothecoides,Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 162 (7): 1978-1995