MAJOR RESEARCH CONTRACTS

“Intermediate-sized, Entrained Particles: Characterization, Formation, and Control,” $165,000, USDOE (subcontract through Sandia National Laboratories, 4/00 – 3/03)

“Combined Cycle Gasification Technologies for Both Black Liquor and Biomass,” $186,000, USDOE (subcontract through Air Products and Chemicals Corporation; 10/98 – 9/00)

“Control of Soluble Scale Fouling in High Solids Black Liquor Concentrators,” $1,065,000 from USDOE, Ahlstrom Corporation, Mead Corporation, Potlatch Corporation, and Weyerhaeuser Company (with the Georgia Institute of Technology, 10/98 – 9/02)

“Growth and Property Development of Convection Pass Deposits in Recovery Boilers,” $215,000, USDOE (subcontract through Sandia National Laboratories) and ABB Combustion Engineering, Ahlstrom Corporation, McDermott Technologies Inc., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Weyerhaeuser Company (2/98 – 1/01)

“Characterization and Destruction of Tars Produced during Low Temperature Black Liquor Gasification,” $110,000 from USDOE (subcontract through the National Renewable Energy Laboratories; 8/97 – 7/99)

“Control of the Accumulation of Non-Process Elements and Organic Compounds in Pulp Mills with Bleach Filtrate Reuse,” $265,000 from USDOE, $65,000 from various industrial sources (7/96 – 6/99)

“Combustion Characteristics, Emissions, and Particle Deposition in Black Liquor Combustion: Experimental Measurements and Modeling,” $382,000, USDOE via the Institute of Paper Science and Technology, 1992-96

“Fume Deposition in Recovery Boilers,” $342,500, a consortium of ABB/Combustion Engineers, Ahlstrom Machinery, Inc., Babcock & Wilcox Company, Kvaerner Pulping, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Tampella Power Inc., Union Camp Corporation, and Weyerhaeuser Paper Company; under review by other industrial firms, 1992-96.