• Education
  • B.S. Annamalai University, India 1968
  • Ph.D. Kansas State University, Kansas 1975


• Experience
  • Lab Assistant, Annamalai University, Tamilnadu, India, June 1968, June 1970
  • Graduate Assistant, Kansas State University, August 1979 to December 1974
  • Assistant Professor, NC A&T State University, January 1975 to 1981
  • Associate Professor, NC A&T State University, 1981 to 1996
  • Faculty Research Participant, U.S. Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA, summer 1986
  • Faculty Research Participant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, summer 1987 - 1989
  • Summer Faculty Position at Waste Management Institute, NC A&T State University, 1997
  • Professor, NC A&T State University, 1997 to Present
  • Co-Chairperson of Chemistry Dept. at NC A&T SU, July 1, 2001 – June 30, 2002


• Research Interests
  • Bioprocessing and Thermal Characterization of Fossil and Biofuels, Metal-Dye Compounds, Utilization of Industrial and Agricultural Wastes to Produce Alcohol and Other Useful Products, and Solar Detoxification of Wastewater.


• Current Projects
  • Thermal characterization and determination of calorific values of some plant materials.


• Selected Publications
  • Kumar, J.V., A. Shahbazi and R. Mathew, Bioconversion of Solid Food Wastes to ethanol, Analyst, 123, p.497 (1998)
  • Padmanabhan, A.P., J.V. Kumar and A. Shahbazi, Bioconversion of Organic Wastes to Ethanol Using Immobilized Thermophilic Bacteria, Am. Environ. Lab., 9 (9), p. 1, (1997).
  • Pratt, B.C. and J.V. Kumar; Effect of Magnesium and Silver Oxides on the Heat Values of Biofuels Determined by Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Am. Lab., 29 (16), p. 12 (1997).
  • Kumar, J.V. and B.C. Pratt, Determination of Calorific Values of Some Renewable Biofuels, Thermochimica Acta, 279, p. 111 (1996).
  • Kumar, J.V. and B.C. Pratt, Compositional Analysis of Some Renewable Biofuels, American Lab. 28 (8), p. 15 (1996).
  • J.V. Kumar, Du, M., A. Shahbazi and K.H. Tan; Lactic Acid Production from Cheese Whey by Lactobacillus Helveticus (to be submitted to Journal of Chem. Tech. and Biotechnology)

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