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9. Programs and Models
10. News Articles

Paper Recycling

• Paper Recycling Introduction (106 slides)
• Paper Recycling Technology Detailed Part 1a (318 slides)
• Paper Recycling Technology Detailed Part 1b
• Paper Recycling Technology Detailed Part 1c
• Paper Recycling Technology Detailed Part 2 (209 slides)
• Paper Recycling Technology Detailed Part 3 (215 slides)
• Trends in Recovered Paper, Supply, Demand, Quality (18 Slides)

• Paper Recycling Technology (Short Course) 2017
• Paper Grades (Short Course) 2017
• Global Dynamics of the Pulp and Paper Industry (Short Course) 2017

Stickies

• Introduction to Adhesive Contaminants more Commonly Called Stickies (12 slides)
• Breakage of Stickies in Paper Recycling Operations
• Control of Stickies
• Screening of Macro Stickies
• Behavior of Micro Stickies in Paper Making and Recycling Operations
• Pulping and Deposition of Macro Stickies
• Stickies Detection Methods Macro and Micro Presentation
• Stickies Detection Methods Macro and Micro Detailed Report
• Extrusion and Folding Models of Stickies Extruded Through Slotted Pressurized Screening Devices
• Behavior of Adhesive Materials (Stickies) in Screening Devices for Paper Recycling –Doctoral Dissertation, Bradley E. Lucas, 2003, NCSU. (76 slides)
• Removal of Wax from Wax Old Corrugated Containers with Advanced Technologies: Supercitical Carbon Dioxide, Agglomeration, Cooking in a Kraft Digester (24 slides)
• Enzyme Applications in Pulp and Paper Industry: An Introduction

Environmental LCA

• Paper Primer Including Introduction to Paper and the Environment:  Sections are Introduction to paper industry, wood and fiber supply, pulp and paper manufacturing, paper recycling, paper and the environment, environmental LCA of paper products (The Sustainability Consortium Webinar, 9/24/2015)

• LCA of Paper Products (6/2012)
• Carbon Footprint and Economic Analysis to Determine the Minimum Carbon Price Required for the Utilization of Residual Forest Materials in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation, SE Regional ACS Meeting Richmond, Virginia, Fall 2011
• Yogurt and bioethanol: biofuel choices, College of Natural Resources, Scholarship Day, December 2011
• Does fertilization of pine trees decrease net GHG emissions? A LCA approach.
• Biofuels and Environmental LCA

PSE 476 Environmental LCA Lectures

• Introduction to Environmental Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) (4/2013)
• Introduction to Environmental LCA and Green Chemsitry (8/2013)
• Introduction to global warming and carbon footprints (6/2012)
• Carbon Accounting: Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standards
• Carbon Accounting: The GHG Protocol for Project Accounting
• Carbon Accounting: GHG Project Accounting Example: Cement Production Using the Project Specific Baseline Procedure
• Introduction to LCA part 1 PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Introduction to LCA part 2 PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Philosophy of LCA PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Goal and Scope of an LCA PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Life cycle inventory PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Units and Material Balances PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Allocation and Considerations for Co Products PSE 476/WPS576 Fall 2014
• LCA Stages: Raw Materials PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• LCA Stages Electricity and Power PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• LCA Stages Transportation PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• LCA Stages End of Life PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• TRACI LCA Impact Assessment PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Introduction to Global Warming PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Carbon Accounting Project PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Social LCA PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Human Labor Impacts in LCA PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Environmental Product Declarations PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2012
• Economic Input Output Life Cycle Analysis  PSE 476/WPS 576 Fall 2014
• Allocation Issues in LCA Fall 2014
• Introduction to Urban Ecology Fall 2014
• Introduction to Social LCA Fall 2014

2016 PSE 476 Environmental LCA Lectures

• Introduction to LCA
• Philosophy of LCA
• Basic Components of LCA
• Units and Mass Energy Balances
• Goal and Scope
• Life Cycle Inventory Analysis
• LCA Stages – Raw Materials
• LCA Stages – Electricity and Power
• LCA Stages – Transportation
• LCA Stages – End of Life
• Allocation
• Life Cycle Impact Assessment
• Global Warming and Carbon Footprinting
• Normalization and Weighting Single Score
• Water Use Metrics in Energy Systems – Daystar
• Environmental Product Declarations
• Future of Sustainable Packaging
• Introduction to Urban Ecology LCA Part a
• Introduction to Urban Ecology LCA Part b
• Sustainability from a Business Perspective
• Social Life Cycle Analysis

Research

• Biomass and Bioenergy: Challenges and Research in the Forest Biomaterials Department at NCSU, Spring 2011, Duke Sabbatical Presentation
• Graduate Research Program in the Wood and Paper Science Dept at NCSU (30 slides)
• Bioenergy and Biomaterials Research in the Wood and Paper Science Dept
• Starch Fiber Composites, ACS Spring 2008 (30 slides)

Documents

• Effect of life cycle analysis methodology choices on the environmental life cycle analysis results for recyclable paper products, White Paper revised January 7, 2012, a discussion of three major LCA studies for paper products, a discussion about recycling allocation methods, and an in-depth investigation of the carbon footprints of coated freesheet and coated mechanical sheet.  Powerpoint presentation based on the document appears in above list as LCA of Paper Products.

• Evaluation of Various Adhesive Contaminant Analysis Methods for the Use in Old Corrugated Container Recycling Plants, AFPA Containerboard Report, 2003.
• Various stickies testing methods for OCC, Progress in Paper Recycling, 2002.
• Behavior of Adhesive Materials in Screening Devices for Paper Recycling, PhD Disseration, Brad Lucas, NCSU, 2003.

Video Presentations

The following YouTube videos are available and linked below.

Introduction to Environmental LCA,  September 20,2018

Paper Recycling 1/23: Introduction to Industry

Paper Recycling 2/23: Contaminants and Paper Strength

Paper Recycling 3/23: Pulping

Paper Recycling 4/23: Cleaning

Paper Recycling 5/23: Screening

Paper Recycling 6/23: Washing

Paper Recycling 7/23: Flotation

Paper Recycling 8/23: Dispersion, Kneading

Paper Recycling 9/23: Bleaching

Paper Recycling 10/23: Image Analysis

Paper Recycling 11/23: Deinking Fundamentals (Rohas)

Paper Recycling 12/23: Residue (Waste Streams from Paper Recycling Operations)

Paper Recycling 13/23: Total System Designs (Flowsheets of Paper Recycling Plants)

Paper Recycling 14/23: Mill Design (Dewan)

Paper Recycling 15/23: Cleaners (Doshi)

Paper Recycling 16/23: Fractionation (Doshi)

Paper Recycling 17/23: Recovered Paper (Doshi)

Paper Recycling 18/23: Stickies (Doshi)

Paper Recycling 19/23: Enzymes (Hockstra)

Paper Recycling 20/23: Screening (Ker)

Paper Recycling 21/23: Pulping (Kerr)

Paper Recycling 22/23: Bleaching (Mannar)

Paper Recycling 23/23: Image Analysis (Rosenberger)

Material Recovery Facility — A tour of an operating MRF

Paper Recycling Factory — A tour of a paper recycling facility making deinked market pulp.

Paper Recycling Factory —  A tour of a paper recycling facility making containerboard out of old corrugated containers and mixed office waste.

Microparticles generated from laundering: their generation, aquatic biodegradation, and fate in water treatment plants.

Kraft Digester Blow ….North Carolina State University Pilot Plant

Papermachine (Fourdrinier) Pilot Plant ….. North Carolina State University Pilot Plant

Centrifugal Cleaners Pilot Plant….Forward and Through Flow Cleaners North Carolina State Univ

Flow control loop Pilot Plant…..Feedback Control of Flow

Quick Paper Recycling Video as a Preface to the Flotation Deinking Virtual Laboratory

Flotation Deinking Virtual Laboratory

Programs and Models

• Carbon footprint, economic, and minimum cost for carbon for co-firing biomass residuals to generate electricity for several pretreatments: Green wood, In-field drying, Torrefaction, Char (Excel spreadsheet)

News Articles

Foam based filters for water treatment.  Technician, Februrary 7, 2012.