Kurt A Rosentrater, Ph.D., SEA
Pronouns
he/him/his
Position
- Faculty Fellow, Honors Program, Iowa State University
- Associate Professor, Iowa State University
- Visiting Professor, Polytech Montpellier, France
- Visiting Professor, ISARA, Lyon, France
- Faculty Fellow, James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits
I am a food engineer by training. Over the years, I have worked as an engineer and a research scientist in industry, government, and academia. My professional interests revolve around creating sustainable pathways forward for the grain processing, human food, animal feed, bioproduct, and biorenewable industries by developing, analyzing, and optimizing processes and products that maximize value and minimize negative consequences for all stakeholders, including producers, consumers, and the environment.
To accomplish this, I apply the principles of physics, chemistry, and engineering to biological systems. I am currently developing and assessing production, transportation, manufacturing processes, and end-of-life options for various bioprocessing supply chains. I also use techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) to examine and optimize these systems and supply chains and to make them more sustainable.
My work ranges from the laboratory scale, to the factory scale, to the farm scale, and even to larger ecosystem scales. I conduct research and provide training and outreach within Iowa, throughout the Midwest US, as well as in many countries throughout the world. I also teach food systems and sustainability at two universities in France.
I serve as faculty advisor for the Biological Systems Engineering club as well.
To accomplish this, I apply the principles of physics, chemistry, and engineering to biological systems. I am currently developing and assessing production, transportation, manufacturing processes, and end-of-life options for various bioprocessing supply chains. I also use techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) to examine and optimize these systems and supply chains and to make them more sustainable.
My work ranges from the laboratory scale, to the factory scale, to the farm scale, and even to larger ecosystem scales. I conduct research and provide training and outreach within Iowa, throughout the Midwest US, as well as in many countries throughout the world. I also teach food systems and sustainability at two universities in France.
I serve as faculty advisor for the Biological Systems Engineering club as well.
Contact Info
3327 Elings Hall
605 Bissell Rd
Ames
,
IA
50011-1098
Email
Phone
+1 515-294-4019
Social Media and Websites
Education
- Ph.D., Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, 2001
- M.S., Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, 1996
- B.S., Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, 1994
Affiliations
Interdepartmental Programs
- CALS Sustainability Task Force
- Center for Crops Utilization Research
- Environmental Science Graduate Program
- FSHN Green and Sustainable Food and Biomaterials Processing Technologies
- Global Resource Systems
- Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences
- Iowa UrbanFEWS
- ISU Sustainable Food Processing Alliance
- Study Abroad - Sustainable, Safe, and Nutritious Food in France
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainability Minor
More Information
Books:
- Storage of Cereal Grains and their Products, 5th ed.
- Kent's Technology of Cereals, 5th ed.
- Distillers Grains: Production, Properties, and Utilization
Research Topics in Frontiers in Nutrition:
- Nutrition at the Crossroads: Food at the Intersection of Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability - Volume I
- Nutrition at the Crossroads: Food at the Intersection of Health, Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability – Volume II
Recent Papers:
- Adams, B. J., and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Simulating the dynamic influence of temperature variation on allowable storage time of shelled corn. Cereal Chemistry 98(3): 583-593.
- Appleton, H., and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Sweet dreams (are made of this): a review and perspectives on aspartic acid production. Fermentation 7: 49.
- Hartfiel, L. M., M. L. Soupir, and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Techno-economic analysis of constant-flow woodchip bioreactors. Transactions of the ASABE 64(5): 1545-1554.
- Ingrao, C., A. Nikkhah, J. Dewulf, V. Siracusa, S. Ghnimi, and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Introduction to the special issue “Sustainability Issues of Food Processing and Packaging: the Role of Life Cycle Assessment”. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 26: 726–737.
- Lavenburg, V. M., K. A. Rosentrater, and S. Jung. 2021. Extraction methods of oils and phytochemicals from seeds and their environmental and economic impacts. Processes 9: 1839.
- Ma, M., and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Pellet quality of corn-based DDGS. Journal of Food Research 10(3): 25-32.
- Mahmud, N., and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Low moisture anhydrous ammonia pretreatment of four lignocellulosic materials – distillers dried grains with solubles, corn gluten feed, corn fiber, and oil palm frond. Frontiers in Energy Research 9: 682522.
- Muhammad, N. I., S. and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Economic evaluation of combined heat and power integrated with food waste-based ethanol production. Frontiers in Energy Research 9: 682609.
- Oliveira, M. da C T. B. e., and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Environmental and economic analysis of low-moisture anhydrous ammonia (LMAA) as a pretreatment for cellulosic ethanol production. Journal of Cleaner Production 315: 1-11.
- Rosentrater, K. A., and L. Yang. 2021. Toward and understanding of physical and biological properties of corn-based whole stillage, thin stillage, and condensed distillers solubles and changes thereof during storage. Frontiers in Energy Research 9: 722950.
- Rosentrater, K. A., Y. Zhang, and B. Wrenn. 2021. Impacts of ethanol production and drying conditions on the chemical, physical, and flowability properties of distillers dried grains with solubles. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 9: 716634.
- Rosentrater, K. A., and W. Zhang. 2021. Selected physical and flowability properties of evolving distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). Frontiers in Energy Research 9: 1-9. doi: 10.3389/fengr.2021.722899.
- Rosentrater, K. A., and W. Zhang. 2021. Techno-economic analysis of integrating soybean biorefinery products into corn-based ethanol fermentation operations. Fermentation 7: 82.
- Stone, T. F., J. R. Thompson, K. A. Rosentrater, and A. Nair. 2021. A life cycle assessment approach for vegetables in large-, mid-, and small-scale food systems in the Midwest US. Sustainability 13: 11368.
- Thompson, J. R., B. Ganapathysubramanian, W. Chen, M. Dorneich, P. Gassman, C. Krejci, M. Liebman, A. Nair, U. Passe, K. A. Rosentrater, N. Schwab, T. Stone, Y. Wang, and Y. Zhou. Iowa urban FEWS: integrating social and biophysical models for exploration of urban food, energy, and water systems. Frontiers in Big Data 4: 662186.
- Von Eschen, A. J., M. L. Brown, and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Effect of increasing dietary high protein distillers dried grains on yellow perch Perca flavenscens performance. Journal of Applied Aquaculture. https://doi.org/10.1080/10454438.2021.1885558
- Webster, C. D., S. D. Rawles, A. Kelly, L. A. Roy, and K. A. Rosentrater. 2021. Juvenile bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) can be fed diets without marine fish meal without adverse effects on growth, survival, diet utilization, and body composition. Aquaculture Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1111/anu.13255
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