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Prepare, or oversee the preparation of, experimental plans for biofuels research or development.
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Provide technical or scientific guidance to technical staff in the conduct of biofuels research or development.
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Prepare biofuels research and development reports for senior management or technical professionals.
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Conduct research to breed or develop energy crops with improved biomass yield, environmental adaptability, pest resistance, production efficiency, bioprocessing characteristics, or reduced environmental impacts.
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Develop computational tools or approaches to improve biofuels research and development activities.
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Develop methods to estimate the efficiency of biomass pretreatments.
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Perform protein functional analysis and engineering for processing of feedstock and creation of biofuels.
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Develop lab scale models of industrial scale processes, such as fermentation.
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Oversee biodiesel/biofuels prototyping or development projects.
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Design or execute solvent or product recovery experiments in laboratory or field settings.
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Conduct experiments to test new or alternate feedstock fermentation processes.
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Develop separation processes to recover biofuels.
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Develop methods to recover ethanol or other fuels from complex bioreactor liquid and gas streams.
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Analyze data from biofuels studies, such as fluid dynamics, water treatments, or solvent extraction and recovery processes.
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Propose new biofuels products, processes, technologies or applications based on findings from applied biofuels or biomass research projects.
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Conduct experiments on biomass or pretreatment technologies.
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Design or conduct applied biodiesel or biofuels research projects on topics, such as transport, thermodynamics, mixing, filtration, distillation, fermentation, extraction, and separation.
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Design chemical conversion processes, such as etherification, esterification, interesterification, transesterification, distillation, hydrogenation, oxidation or reduction of fats and oils, and vegetable oil refining.