Education
1988 Ph.D, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
1984 M.A.Sc., Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
1979 B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, University of Science and Technology. Kumasi, Ghana.
Professional Activities
Dr Agblevor is a USTAR Endowed Professor, Director of USTAR Bioenergy Center, Graduate Committee Chair, Department of Biological Engineering, Utah State University. Dr Agblevor serves as board member for several small startup companies in the USA. Coordinator, Bioprocess Engineering, Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1996-2009. He has been featured in local, national, international and societal newspapers as well as on radio.
Dr Agblevor is known internationally as an expert in thermochemical biomass conversion and rapid characterization of biomass feedstocks. Dr Agblevor was former Vice Chairman E 48 Committee
on Biotechnology of the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) and has developed eight ASTM standards. Dr Agblevor has a large number of publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has several patents.
He has been Guest lecturer and keynote speaker at several national and international conferences. Dr Agblevor has organized and chaired several sessions of the Cellulose and renewable materials Division of the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Current Projects
1. Wastewater treatment of using reformulated red mud as flocculant/coagulant.
2. Catalytic pyrolysis of pinyon-juniper wood
3. Catalyst development for in situ catalytic pyrolysis of biomass.