One of the leading institutions in South Africa in developing technology and building human capacity for bio-energy and biofuels production. The University hosts national centres of excellence in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies (CRSES) (www.sun.ac.za/crses) and The Senior Chair in Energy Research: Liquid Biofuels (www.sun.ac.za/biofuels). TheDepartment of Process Engineering is one of the five Departments in the Faculty of Engineering, which together with Microbiology Department jointly hosts the Senior Chair in Energy Research. The Department has four major research areas one of which is Bioprocess Engineering. Bioprocess Engineering focuses strongly on Energy and the Environment and food security research . The research activities include: (1) production of fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass. (2) Process modelling, (3) Sustainability of energy conversion technologies and (4) agro-processing.