Biorefinery Site
Grants and Awards
Appropriated External Grants
Total of $12 million in research funding over the past 10 years from external and IPST consortium research funding sources
| Funding Source | Title of Research Program | Funding Level |
| Private Industry P.I. (1992) |
Fundamental Studies of Recalcitrant Lignin in Pulp |
40,000/1 year |
| USDA/NRI P.I. (1992) |
Fundamental Studies of the Photoinitiated Oxidation of
Lignin |
102,000/2 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1993) |
Structural Characterization of Fungal Treated Wood |
8,000/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1993) |
Wet/Dry Strength of Kraft Pulp |
3,500/1 year |
| DOE-ORNL P.I. (1993) |
Design of Biobleaching Catalyst |
27,500/1 year |
| NSF-(DBI)GA-Tech Co-P.I. (1994) |
Upgrade of (GA Tech) 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer | 150,000/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1993) |
Cellulose Chemistry |
35,000/1 year |
| NSF P.I. (1995) |
Stabilization of Mechanical Pulp Against
Color Reversion |
165,000/2 year |
| USDA P.I. (1995) |
Development of Nonchlorine Bleaching Agent |
27,000/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1995) |
Analysis of Kraft Residual Lignin |
12,500/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1995) |
Activation of Hydrogen Peroxide for Bleaching Kraft
Pulps |
60,000/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1995) |
Increase Wet/Dry Strength of Kraft Pulp |
8,000/1 year |
| Roche P.I. (1996) |
Roche Gift to Ongoing Research |
9,800/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1996) |
Review of Brightness Reversion Technologies |
5,000/1 year |
| ORNL-DOE P.I. (1996) |
Design of Biobleaching Catalyst |
27,500/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1996) |
Structural Elucidation of Fungal Treated Wood |
8,000/1 year |
| Georgia TIP3 P.I. (1996) |
Improved Peroxide-Based Bleaching |
104,263/2 year |
| DOE P.I. (1996) |
High Efficiency ClO2 Delignification | 506,900/2 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1996) |
Structural Characterization of Fungal Treated Wood |
8,000/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1997) |
Validate Brightness Reversion Technology |
17,550/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (1997) |
Kraft Pulping Additive Studies |
75,000/1 year |
| USDA P.I. (1997) |
Photoinitiated Oxidation of Lignin |
102,000/2 year |
| Georgia TIP3 P.I. (1998) |
Low Effluent Bleaching Technology |
46,683/1 year |
| DOE P.I. (1998) |
Mill-Designed Biobleaching Technologies |
548,000/3 year |
| USDA P.I.(1999) |
Lignocellulosic Photostabilization |
110,900/2 year |
| DOE P.I. (1999) |
High Selectivity Oxygen Delignification |
750,000/3 year |
Private Industry |
Elaboration and Control of Air-Dried Hand Towel Odor |
50,000/1 year |
| USDA Co-P.I. (1999) |
UV/Vis Spectroscopy for Wood Chemistry |
25,528/1 year |
| USDA P.I. (1999) |
Photobleaching Lignin |
90,000/2 year |
| Georgia TIP3 Co-P.I. (2000) |
Management of Soil Quantity and Quality in High
Productivity Forest Plantations |
14,188/1 year |
| DOE P.I. (2000) |
Fast Curing of Composite Wood Products |
300,000/2 year |
| DOE Co-P.I. (2000) |
Novel Pulping Technology: Directed Green Liquor Utilization Pulping |
610,000/2 year |
| DOE Co-P.I. (2001) |
Higher Efficiency Oxygen Delignification |
|
| Sloan Co-P.I. (2001) |
Price Behavior (Forecasting & Elasticity) in the Pulp
and
Paper Industry |
75,000/1 year |
| Georgia TIP3 Co-P.I. (2000-03) |
Management of Soil Carbon Quantity and Quality in
High Productivity Forest Plantations |
53,000/3 year |
| Georgia TIP3 P.I. (2002) |
High Filler Content Paper and Board Products |
117,000/1 year |
| Georgia TIP3 P.I. (2002) |
Development of Technology for New High-Value Cellulose
Products |
70,000/1 year |
| Georgia TIP3 P.I. (2003) |
Optimizing the Pulping of Georgia’s SW Thinning
Wood Resource |
50,000/1 year |
| Georgia TIP3 P.I. (2003) |
High Filler Content Paper and Board Products - II |
100,000/1 year |
| Private Industry P.I. (2003) |
Fiber Oxidation/Sulfonation | 300,000/2 years |
| Private Industry P.I. (2003) |
Chemically Modified Fibers |
350,000/2 years |
| USDA P.I. (2003) |
Novel Biomass Processing |
170,000/3 years |
| DARPA P.I. (2003) |
BioEngineering Cellulosic Metabolic Nutritional Capabilities |
200,000/ 1 year |
| IPST Industrial Consortium | Fiber Modification/Fiber-Fiber
Bonding |
356,000/1 year |
| IPST Industrial Consortium | Composite Paper Structures |
230,000/1 year |
P.I.: Principal Investigator; Georgia TIP3: Georgia Traditional Industries in Pulp and Paper Production; DOE: Department of Energy; USDA: United States Department of Agriculture; NSF: National Science Foundation |
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IPST INDUSTRIAL CONSORTIUM-FUNDED PROJECTS
Ragauskas has secured research funding from industrial consortium member companies for five major research efforts:
- Fiber Modification/Fiber-Fiber Bonding (2001-ongoing)
- Composite Paper Structures (2002-ongoing)
- Fundamentals of Bleaching Chemical Pulps (1993-2001)
- Fundamentals of Brightness Reversion (1989-1999)
- Fundamentals of Fiber Modification (1999-2001)
- Advanced NMR Instrumentation (1995)
Managed industrial research funding of $6 million