Leveraging Emerging Technologies

To Advance Forest Biomaterials Business

2012 Members Meeting April 10-11, 2012

IPST Paper Tricentennial Building

Atlanta, Georgia

Strategic Themes

Strategic Themes

Outline:

Georgia Tech Research Volume

IPST as a GT Strategic Theme Area

IPST Mission

Strategic Areas for IPST

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Georgia Tech: Research Summary

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Nearly half of budget from grants and contracts.

Georgia Tech: Research Summary

Industry Funded Research

Approximately (16%)

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2012 Year to Date (April 6):

Total $478 MM

Engineering $149 MM

“Big Data” – High Performance Computing, Computational Science, …

Biotechnology

Electronics and Nanotechnology

Energy and Sustainability

Infrastructure – Water, Transportation, Urban Systems, …

Manufacturing and Logistics

Materials – Carbon-based Electronics, Composites, …

National Security

Paper Science and Technology

People and Technology –New Media Enabling New Organizations

Robotics – Test & Evaluation, Training, Military and Commercial Apps

Systems – Aerospace, Mechanical, …

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IPST-Georgia Tech

March 12, 2012

Strategic Theme Areas

Vision and Mission

Vision:

To be the premier research institute for the cost-competitive

transformation of forest biomaterials into value-added products,

including traditional and new forest products, renewable energy,

chemicals, advanced materials and pharmaceuticals.

Mission:

Provide members solutions to their strategic, economic, and

technical challenges by building a research collaborative that

enables access to world-class research personnel at IPST, across

Georgia Tech, and globally.

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Forest Products Research at

Georgia Tech and IPST

• FY2011 $9.7 million in forest

biomaterials research — on track to

exceed in FY2012

• Actively building new research platforms, e.g., $365,000 multi-disciplinary research funding in tissue category

A culture of commercialization

with a cross-disciplinary focus

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IPST Research – Strategic Themes

• Operational Excellence • Advance Manufacturing Competitiveness • New / Improved Pulp, Paper and Paperboard Products

• Biorefining • Renewable Chemicals and Fuels • Adding to the Mill’s Portfolio of Products

• Biomaterials • Renewable Materials and Composites • Nanocellulose Materials

• Business and Policy • CHP and Jobs

• Education • Provide Leaders

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Sponsored Research by Strategic Area

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Operational Excellence

Biorefining

New Products

Other

2007 Total 2011 Total

Sponsored Research Spend from 2007 to 2011:

Total Increased 34%

Biorefining Increased 317%

New Materials Increased 139%

Operational Excellence Decreased 63%

Operational Excellence

Biorefining

New Products

Other

Sponsored Research by Strategic Area

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Operational Excellence

Biorefining

New Products

Other

2007-2011 Total

Five Year Totals:

Externally Sponsored Research Spend: $23 MM

Total Spend: $47 MM

Declining industry research sponsorship; greater Federal sponsorship.

Industry sponsored research declined only 22% from 2007 to 2011.

However, Pulp & Paper a smaller percent of industry funding.

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Example Areas of Research: • Reductions in Carbon Emissions and Energy

Consumption • Develop process improvements • Chemical & Energy Recovery in the Kraft

Pulp Mill • Optimized Fibers for Pulp & Paper Products • Applied & Exploratory Paper Chemistry • Improved Dewatering and Reduced Fresh

Water Use in Manufacturing • Scale and Fouling Control • Corrosion Control • New Product Features

Operational Excellence

Breakthrough

Manufacturing Technology,

Manufacturing Cost Reduction,

Laboratory Support

Strategic Themes Operational Excellence in Pulp & Paper

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• Fate & Biotransformation Potential of Phytosterols in Pulp & Paper

Wastewater Treatment Systems (Banerjee/Pavlostathis)

• Recycled Fiber Processing (Hsieh)

• Bulk Stress and Rheology of Suspension Flow (Aidun)

• Evaporator Scaling (Aidun)

• A Fluidics Approach to Functional Encapsulation of Developing Somatic

Embryos of Norway Spruce (Aidun)

• LDV Measurement and Analysis of High Speed Forming Jet Turbulence

(Aidun)

• Cyclic Stress Effect on Stress Corrosion Cracking of Duplex Stainless Steel

in Chloride and Caustic Solutions (Singh/Neu)

• A Study on the Mechanism of Stress Corrosion Cracking of Duplex

Stainless Steels in Alkaline Sulfide Environments (Singh)

• Superheater Corrosion in Kraft Recovery Boilers (Singh)

• Nanostructured Fillers for Improved Paper Properties & Water Removal

Efficiency (Wang/Deng)

PSE Research – Operational Excellence

All research titles awarded prior to FY2011

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• Fundamentals of Hemicellulose-Cellulose Interactions (Ragauskas)

• Cationic Polymer Accelerated Hydrolysis of Starch (Banerjee)

• Engineering of Cellulose Binding Domain (Bommarius/Realff/Lee)

• Fluid Control on Plasma Modified Paper (Breedveld)

• Effect of Plasma Processing & Annealing on the Electrical &

Optical Properties of Colloidal Indium Tin Oxide Films (Gerhardt)

• Nanostructured Optical Coatings for Sustainable Paper and

Paperboard Products (Meredith)

PSE Research – Operational Excellence

Biorefining

Enable Pulp & Paper Asset Enhancement by Enriching Existing Manufacturing Site’s Portfolio of Products;

Address Technical Challenges to Biofuel

Development

Example Areas of Research: • For the pulp manufacturer, leverage existing

assets by extending product portfolio at existing pulp & paper mills

• Resolve technical challenges of the cost efficient production of biofuels

• Capitalize on US DOE-funded research into lignocellulosic material conversion by

thermal and biological processes • Leverage IPST’s fluidized bed reactor

capability to understand and address technical issues

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Strategic Themes Biorefining

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• Kinetics of Biomass Gasification at High Pressures (Agrawal)

• Polymer-Aided Enzymatic Conversions of Cellulosic Sludge to Energy (Banerjee)

• Engineering Cellulolytic Escherichia coli for Consolidated Biofuel Production

(Chen)

• Degradation of Biomass and its Conversion into Biofuel (Deng)

• Green Fuels from Lignocellulose Materials Through Catalytic Reaction (Deng)

• Development of Sulfur Resistant Catalysts for Tar Removal from Biomass

Derived Syngas (Sievers)

• Production of High-Octane Fuels from Pyrolysis Oils (Sievers)

• Pyrolysis of Lignin for Bio-oils (Ragauskas)

• Utilization of Switchgrass as a Biofuel Feedstock (Ragauskas)

• Fundamentals of Converting Process Streams to Value Added Chemicals

(Ragauskas)

• Converting Softwood Bark to Fuel Precursors (Ragauskas)

• Stress Corrosion Cracking of Pipeline Steel in Fuel Grade Ethanol Environments

(Singh)

• Stress Corrosion Cracking Mechanism of 316L Stainless Steel in High

Temperature Ethanolic Solutions (Singh)

PSE Research – Biorefining

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Example Areas of Research: • Leverage technical capabilities in chemistry,

nanotechnology, chemical and mechanical engineering, and material sciences

• Identify new value-added products from forest biomass

• Renewable feedstock to the chemical industry

• Lignin-based chemistry • New materials:

- Biocomposites / Biopolymers - Nanocellulosic Materials

• Applications: - Packaging Materials - Coating Technologies - Adhesives and Binders

Biomaterials

Green Field Products and Feedstocks: Renewable,

Sustainable Forest Products, and

Nanotechnology

Strategic Themes New Products from Forest Biomass

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• Design of Robust and Smart Antimicrobial Microcapsules from Double

Pickering Emulsions for Applications in Paper and Packaging (Behrens)

• Pollen as an Advanced Material and Additive (Meredith)

• Factors Stimulatory towards Germination of Loblolly Pine Somatic

Embryos; Investigation of Novel Anti-inflammatories (May/Pullman)

• Preparation and Characterization of Nanocellulose Multivalent Whiskers

(Ragauskas)

• Pseudo-Lignin Chemistry (Ragauskas)

• Lignin to Lipid Bioconversion (Ragauskas)

• Preparation and Characterization of Lignin-based Rigid Polyurethane Foam

Reinforced with Cellulose Nanowhiskers (Ragauskas)

• Self-Assembling Multivalency Structures (Ragauskas)

• Utilization and Characterization of Nanocomposite Film from Biomass

(Ragauskas)

PSE Research – Biomaterials

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• Cellulose-based Scaffold in Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering

(Aidun/Garmestani)

• Water-Driven Shape Memory Aerogel from Cellulose Nanofibers (Deng)

• Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Cellulose-Based Nanocomposites (Deng/Y

Wang)

• Development of Bio-Based Nanocomposites with Cellulose Whiskers as the

Filler Phase and Wood-originating Polymers as the Matrix (Hamid)

• Understanding Aspect Ratio Effects on Polymer Crystallization and

Mechanical Properties in Cellulose/Polyhydroxybutyrate Nanocomposites

(Shofner)

• Effect of Biomaterial Surface Chemistry on Cellular Response (Jacob)

PSE Research – Biomaterials

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Business and Policy

Economics, Business and Policy Studies

Example Areas of Research: • Sustainability research

• Product Life Cycle Analysis • Environmental assessments • Energy use • Feedstock issues • Socio-economical studies

• Business and industry and policy studies

• Understanding strategically important managerial, economic, social, and organizational challenges facing the Industry

• Employment effect of best available technologies

Strategic Themes Business and Policy

Example Areas of Expertise: • Biomass pulping and fractionation

• Biomass characterization, gasification, and pyrolysis

• Pulp analysis

• Recovery process elements

• Chemical analysis

• Product physical analysis

• Paper contaminants/deposits

• Corrosion / failure analysis

• Microscopy (optical, SEM, TEM)

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Laboratory and Analytical Services

Dedicated to Forest Biomaterials

Interests

Strategic Themes Laboratory and Analytical Services

Summary: • 55% of recent graduates that were

hired to industry joined pulp & paper companies and related suppliers

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Education

Developing Leaders for the Forest Bioproducts

Industry

Strategic Themes Education

Summary

• IPST at Georgia Tech seeks to drive the cost-competitive transformation of forest biomaterials into value-added products.

• IPST provides members solutions to their strategic, economic, and technical challenges.

• Although industry sponsorship has slightly declined, research and development capabilities have grown

• IPST at Georgia Tech enables: • Access to world-renowned faculty, along with world-class expert

technical and consulting services

• Benefit from consortium and directed research

• Leverage State and Federally funded projects and capabilities

• Participation in technical forums

• Access to highly qualified cross-disciplinary students

• Opportunity to participate in advanced manufacturing initiatives

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Advancing the Forest Bioeconomy

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