With the growing global population, there is an increasing demand for food, energy and water. These are often interconnected, and typically studied as the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus. This creates a unique challenge to our agricultural industry and forest resources. It is also a great opportunity for bioprocess engineers to provide technical solutions to issues related to the FEW Nexus. This session accepts bio-technical solutions, including bioprocessing of food and feed, biofertilizer, soil bioremediation, biological waste management and water treatment, etc., to critical FEW systems problems. This session will focus on a technical solution and on bioprocess development that will benefit FEW systems.

Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division

Environmental Division (09), Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division (15), Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)