Glutamic Acid Production from Food Waste and Recycled Materials

Completed:

September 2015:

• Assignments

  • Chose project idea

  • Communicated with faculty advisor (Dr. Senger)

  • Proposed project idea

  • Created OneNote notebook

  • Scheduled weekly meeting with Dr. Senger

  • Made Gantt Chart

  • Developed  website

• Design Activities

  • Attended weekly meetings

  • Contacted Sustainability Coordinator at Virginia Tech to get pre-consumer food waste

  • Picked up pre-consumer food waste 

October 2015:

• Assignments

  • Took Engineering Code of Ethics Quiz

  • Researched and submitted standards associated with project

  • Submitted technology review

• Design Activities

  • Attended weekly meetings

  • Blended pre-consumer waste

  • Anaerobic digestion of pre-consumer waste

November 2015:

• Assignments

  • Submitted contemporary issues associated with project

  • Design competition ideas

  • Peer evaluations

• Design Activities 

  • Attended weekly meetings

  • Contacted the Sustainability Coordinator at Virginia Tech to get post-consumer food waste

  • Picked up post-consumer waste at Owen's Dining Hall

  • Researched strains that make glutamic acid

December 2015:

• Assignments

  • Analysis of potential solutions paper

  • Website design

• Design Activities 

  • Attended weekly meetings

  • Contacted Dr. Hession about purchasing a bacteria strain

  • Blended of post-consumer waste

  • Anaerobic digestion of post-consumer waste

  • Made a working preliminary design for the process