Kurt Rosentrater

I am a food engineer.  Over the years, I have worked as an engineer in industry, government, and academics.  My professional interests focus on creating sustainable pathways forward for the human food and animal feed industries by developing, analyzing, and optimizing processes and products that maximize value and minimize negative consequences for all stakeholders, including the envirionment.

To accomplish this, I employ the principles of physics, chemistry, and engineering to biological systems.  I am currently developing manufacturing processes to produce renewable, sustainable products such as enhanced foods, feeds, fuels, bioplastics, biocomposites, advanced biofuels, and other forms of bioenergy.  I also use techno-economic modeling and life cycle assessment to examine and optimize bio-based systems.  My work ranges from the laboratory scale, to the factory scale, to the farm scale, and even to larger ecosystem scales.  

I also pursue food and feed ingredient analyses, development of value-added products and processes, improvements in processing efficiencies, modeling and simulation of processing systems, plant layout, and process design.