Dr. Rubén Morawicki
Assistant Professor

Phone: (479) 575-4923
Email: rmorawic@uark.edu
Office: E-13

Green Food Processing

The objective of my research program is the development of processing technologies that minimize the environmental impact of food processing plants leading to the creation of more sustainable industrial practices. The programs main goal is the research of "Green Technologies" applied to food processing and packaging.

Some of my research interests are:

• The replacement of energy intensive processes by alternative technologies
• Utilization of co-products and byproducts from the food industry and agricultural commodities to generate added-value products
• Use of waste streams, to produce or isolate valuable compounds or fuel
• Biosynthesis of valuable secondary metabolites using tissue byproducts
• Optimization of processes in the food industry

Morawicki RO, Beelman RB, and Peterson DG.  2005.  Recovery and Purification of 10-oxo-trans-8-decenoic Acid Enzymatically Produced Using a Crude Homogenate of Agaricus bisporus. Journal of Food Science October 2005 (70)8.

Morawicki RO, Beelman RB, Peterson DG, and Demirci A.  2005.  Biosynthesis of 1-octen-3-ol and 10-oxo-trans-8-decenoic acid using a crude homogenate of Agaricus bisporus: Reaction Scale Up. Journal of Food Science June/July 2005 (70)5.

Morawicki RO, Beelman RB, Peterson DG, and Ziegler GR.  2005.  Biosynthesis of 1-octen-3-ol and 10-oxo-trans-8-decenoic acid using a homogenate of Agaricus bisporus. Optimization of the Reaction: Kinetic Factors. Process Biochemistry.  40:131-37.

Morawicki RO. 2002. Biosynthesis of 1-octen-3-ol and 10-oxo-trans-8-decenoic acid: Optimization of the reaction, Scale Up and Recovery.  Doctoral Dissertation. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Morawicki RO, Schmalko ME, Känzig RG. 1999. Stability of Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguayensis) Chlorophyll in Controlled Atmospheres.  Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology 42(1).