Department of Forest Biomaterials

Perry Peralta WP Undergraduate Programs 919.515.5731 perry_peralta@ncsu.edu

Richard Venditti Graduate Programs 919.515.6185 richard_venditti@ncsu.edu

Joe Denig Extension Team Leader 919.515.5582 joe_denig@ncsu.edu

Contacts: Steve Kelley Department Head 919.515.5321 steve_kelley@ncsu.edu Med Byrd PSE Undergraduate Programs 919.515.5790 med_byrd@ncsu.edu

http://cnr.ncsu.edu/wps

College of Natural Resources

College of Natural Resources

Paper Science and Engineering (PSE)

Wood Products (WP)

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management

Department of Forest Biomaterials (Wood and Paper Science)

Wood Products

• 8 Faculty

• 2 Research Faculty

• 3 Extension Faculty

• 35 Undergraduate Students

• 10 Graduate Students

http://cnr.ncsu.edu/wps/aboutus/whatwedo/woodprods.html

Paper Science & Engineering

• 18 Faculty

• 11 Research Associates

• 135 Undergrad Students

Dual Chem Eng degree is unique in the US

• 50 Graduate Students: 27 PhD + 17 MS + 6 MS in

Integrated Manuf. Systems

• 14 Distance Masters of Wood and Paper Science

http://cnr.ncsu.edu/wps/aboutus/whatwedo/pse.html

• Assistantships of $38,000/yr, which includes stipend, tuition, and health benefits

• Stipends of $22k/yr PhD and $18k/yr MS

• Hoffman & National Needs Fellowships

• 25% female, 75% international students, over 12 different countries

Assistantships and Fellowships

Pulp and Paper Foundation

• Formed in 1954 to support pulp and paper education

• 55 member companies provide annual support

• Paper companies

• Chemical and equipment suppliers

• Other allied industries

• 1000 individual members

• 115 endowed scholarships & 3 endowed professorships

• $8 million in endowments

Faculty in Forest Biomaterials

Dimitris Argyropoulos

Wood Chemistry

Med Byrd

Process Development

Hou-min Chang

Wood Chemistry

Vincent Chiang

Forestry Biotechnology

Martin Hubbe

Surface Chemistry

Stephen Kelley

Polymer Chemistry

Adrianna Kirkman

Process Simulation

Lucian Lucia

Wood Chemistry

Sunkyu Park

Bioenergy Process

Richard Phillips

Bioenergy Economics

Orlando Rojas

Surface Chemistry

Daniel Saloni

Process Development

David Tilotta

Wood Chemistry

Richard Venditti

Life Cycle Analysis

Hasan Jameel

Process Engineering

John Heitmann

Enzyme Biotechnology

Not pictured:

Sudipta Dasmohapatra, Wood Products

Joe Denig, Professor, Extension Leader

Michael Kocurek, Paper Science

Rick Lemaster, Wood Machining & Tooling

Philip Mitchell, Wood Products

Joel Pawlak, Paper Physcis

Perry Peralta, Wood Products

Ilona Peszlen, Wood Products

Elisabeth Wheeler, Wood Products

Paper Science Facilities

• The 50,000 sq. ft. Robertson Pulp and Paper

Laboratory is one of the best equipped

university laboratories of its kind in the

country.

• Facilities for pulp and paper manufacture

includes pulping digesters, CTMP-TMP,

deinking and fiber recycling units

• Hodges Wood Products Laboratory: wood

machining, wood drying, wood testing

• Extensive analytical equipment for forest

biomaterials processing and characterization

Analytical Instrumentation

• QCM-D, SPR, AFM • Charge demand analyzer & Microelectrophoresis • Confocal Microscope • LB through • Spin coaters • Streaming current devices • Surface and spinning drop tensiometers • Rheometers • Chromatography (HPLC, GC/MS, IC, etc.) • Polarized microscopes • FT-IR/NIR microscope, DRIFT and ATR

• Fully equipped Instron • Rheometrics RSA2 Solids Analyser • Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA ) • Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC ) • Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) • Advanced Rheometer AR 2000 • NMR (Bruker Avance 300) • Contact Angle goniometer • CLC coater • Supercritical extraction set up • Electrospinning • Particle sizing, ultracentrifuge, etc.

+ Instrumentation @ Analytical

Instrumentation Facility

(www.ncsu.edu/aif/facility3.htm)

[SEMs, XPS, AFMs, SIMS, etc.]

Technical Service

• Chemical Pulping (bench/pilot/large scale)

• Mechanical Pulping (bench/pilot/large scale)

• Pulp Processing (pulping and stock

makedown, washing & thickening,

screening, centrifugal cleaning, refining)

• Fiber recycling (bench/pilot scale)

• Papermaking (bench/pilot scale)

• Pulp and Paper (analytical, mechanical,

surface and optical) testing

Education

Research Extension

Our research activities…

Forest Biomaterials NC State University

BioMaterials &

Composites

Raw

Materials

Wood Chemistry Fiber

Processing

Papermaking

Bioenergy

Mechanical & Aerospace Eng

Bio Refinery

Forest

Based Biomass

Agricultural

Based Biomass

Biomass

Sugars and

Extractives Platform

ThermoChemical

Platform

Pulp ad

Paper Mill

Value Added and

Commodity

Chemicals Fuels, Solvents,

Monomers,

Polymers,Power

Paper

Products

Advanced

Separations

Biotechnology

Sugar, Aromatic

Intermediates

Low MW

Hydrocarbon

Intermediates

Paper Mill

Byproduct

• Develop new methods to convert renewable plant resources into products for society

• Understand the chemistry and engineering issues involved in these transformations

Research Goals

• Genetically modified trees & wood properties.

• “Super” trees being developed for high production rate and superior performance.

• Design and optimization of wood tools for ultra performance.

• Making wood products more competitive with metals and plastics.

• Nano & micro fibrillar cellulose

• Renewable material to potentially replace metals and plastics

• Conversion of wood/plants to glucose and ethanol

• New tools to measure enzyme activities

• Renewable replacement for petroleum fuels

• Ionic liquids & green processes

• Derivatized and grafted starch, hemicelluloses and chitosan to make hydrogels

• Super absorbents for personal care products.

• Wood fiber-synthetic polymer composites

• High performance composites

• Bioethanol Pilot Plant

• Wood-to-Ethanol Research Consortium

• Value Prior to Pulping (VPP)

• Ethanol from Transgenic Hardwoods

• Ethanol from Coastal Bermuda Grass

• Enhancing Wood Penetration for More Efficient Hydrolysis and Optimized Saccharification

• Opportunities with Dissolved Wood for the Forest Biorefinery

• Validation of Therminator Syngas Cleanup

• Advanced Technology for Low Cost Ethanol from Engineered Cellulosic Biomass

• Economics and Feasibility of North Carolina Biomass Conversion

• Producing Ethanol from Biomass by Extracting Value Prior to Extraction

• Low Cost Conversion of Industrial Sludges to Ethanol

• Integrated Torrefaction-Gasification for the Production of Biofuels

• Economic Analysis of Pine Biomass Varieties for Ethanol Production

• Life Cycle Analysis for the Production of Transportation Fuels

• Fast Pyrolysis of Forestry Biomass

Bioenergy Projects

Wood to Ethanol Research Consortium (1)

• Industry consortium of six companies

• Repurposing a kraft pulp mill into a ethanol mill

• Develop cost effective process by reusing existing assets

Raw

Materials • Relationships between fiber and

product characteristics

• Impact of natural variants on

product characteristics

• Genetic modification to improve

process and product performance

• Performance and Value of CAD-Deficient Pine

• Exploring Genetic Variation of Fiber Components and Morphology in Juvenile Loblolly pine

• Improved Wood Properties through Genetic Manipulation: Engineering of Syringyl Lignin in Softwood Species

• Wood and Fiber Quality of Juvenile Pine: Characterization and Utilization

• Genetic Variation and Structural Characterization of Cellulose, Hemicellulose and Lignin in elite Pine

• Impact of Transgenic Trees on Fiber Properties and Paper Economics

• Pulping and Papermaking Properties of Arundo Donax

Wood Chemistry

Fiber Processing

• Development of Analytical/micro- analytical

techniques of wood/pulp characterization

• Fundamental oxidation chemistry as

applied to bleaching & remediation

technologies

• Design of new highly-efficient pulping

processes/additives & polysulfides

• Recycling

• Design of New Oxidation Catalysts for the use by the Pulp & Paper Industry

• Highly-Efficient Pulping Process using Novel Green Liquor Pre-Treatment & Additive Development

• Heteronuclear NMR in Wood Chemistry

• Use of Micro Wave Technologies in Pulping

• Fundamentals of Gasification

• Polysulfide Chemistry

• Use of Lacasses/Peroxidases/Libases in Fiber Processing

• Removal of Adhesive Contaminants in Recycling

• Automatic Sorting of Wastepaper

• Development of New Paper Materials for More Effective Recycling

Papermaking

Understanding and Implementing

the Principles of papermaking

• Wet end Operations

• Drying

• Coating

•Tissue Making and Creping

• Modification of Fiber Flexibility to Improve Tissue Softness

• Reversibility of fiber Flocculation

• Dry Strength Treatment Strategies using Novel; Coating Technologies

• Effect of Hydrodynamic Shear on efficiency of Retention Aid

• Adsorption Behavior of Surfactants & Polymers at Interfaces

• Impact of fiber Fines on Drainage

• Development of Charge titration Methods

• Adhesion forces between Inorganic and Cellulose surfaces

• Impact if Fiber Properties on Water Retention and Drying

(Bio) Materials

& Composites

• Improvements in the End Use Properties of

Paper

• Modification of surfaces to Impart Unique

Properties

• Development of Novel Uses of Cellulose,

Lignin, Hemicellulose and Extractives

• Chemical, Monomers and Solvents from

Biomass

• Forest Biomaterials Initiative

• Improved Dimensional Stability of Fibers through Selective Enzymatic Degradation

• Compounding of Wood Fibers and Synthetic Polymers

• Micro and Nano-cellular Foaming of Wood and Wood Fibers

• Effect of Cellulose Mesophase Structure on Regenerated cellulose Fiber Properties: Role of Shear Induced Stresses

• Low Cost Process for Value Added Regenerated Cellulose Products from Biomass Residues

• Antimicrobial Paper

• Derivatization and Use of Lignin as Polymeric Surfactant