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Partnering with the USDA to create bioproducts that meet market needs. William Orts Research Leader, Bioproducts 19 March 2018 Add value to agricultural products to help the rural economy Agricultural Research Service USDAs chief

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Partnering with the USDA to create bioproducts that meet market needs.

William Orts – Research Leader, Bioproducts

19 March 2018

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Agricultural Research Service

Add value to agricultural products to help the rural economy

USDA’s chief scientific research agency $1.1 Billion annual budget 1,800 PhD-level scientists 6,000 other employees 100+ research locations

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NCAUR ERRC SRRC WRRC

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Partners share a common goal and some shared equity in the game:  *Funding *Equipment *Materials *Facility Access *Staff *Know-how Corporate partners receive: *Access to ARS technology, expertise & facilities *Service from ARS Patent Advisors *Right to negotiate an exclusive patent license

Partners just need an “American presence”

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McDonald’s sells 65 million lbs/yr of apples in the U.S. USDA continues to collect royalties

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Rubber is mainly tapped in Southeast Asia

  • Tapping is labor intensive.
  • Palm oil plantations are displacing rubber.

Rubber Tapping: Strategic Materials

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Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S.

By DIANE CARDWELL AUG. 18, 2015

Colleen McMahan

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Patagonia has partnered with eco-friendly biomaterial firm Yulex to create the first plant-based wetsuit material. USDA-ARS partners with Bridgestone/ Firestone and several academic partners in a $15MM grant program to develop domestic rubber tires.

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Grace Chen

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Integrated Biorefinery Based

  • n MSW and Ag-Derived

Biomass

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Paper, 36% Food scraps, 12% Yard trimmings, 12% Plastics, 11% Metals, 8% Rubber, leather, & textiles , 7% Wood, 6% Glass, 5% Others, 3%

425 million tons per year of unsorted MSW produced in U.S. (BioCycle)

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  • Pressurized hot water treatment.
  • Reduces volume.
  • Isolates recyclables
  • Fractionates components
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Conveyor loading MSW to autoclave

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MSW prior to steam treatment

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Trommel Screen Side View

Post-Autoclave MSW Sorting

Trommel Screen Frontal View

3/8” ½” 1” >1”

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Clean fiber from MSW after centrifugal cleaners

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Cellulose Recovery from Autoclaved MSW

Processed paper from recovered fiber

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Enzymatic hydrolysis of MSW

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Time (hrs) % Conversion Untreated MSW Autohydrolyzed MSW Autohydrolyzed/Extracted MSW 5 % solids 0.05 M citrate buffer 50 FPU/g 200 CBU/g 55 0C

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22 Trommel Screen 3/8” minus 1/2” minus 1” minus 1” plus Autoclave High solids anaerobic digester

Receiving slope Reaction zone Attached growth zone Weir

Anaerobic digestion: Biogas from wastes

Kevin Holtman - USDA

  • startup300 gal H2O + 300 gal WAS (87 lbs db)
  • dewater to 20 % solids
  • target 37oC by heating attached growth zone
  • periodic hydraulic mixing (15 min every 6 h)
  • maintain neutral pH without chemical addition
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Compressed Biomethane vs Ethanol

  • But, 99 diesel equivalent gallons per mt of autoclave MSW product (dry basis).
  • 155 ethanol equivalent gallons per mt of autoclave pulp product (dry basis).

Biomethane Ethanol

  • Achieve 70 gallons per mt of autoclave MSW product (dry basis).

HELP! European anaerobic digestion technology is significantly ahead of U.S. development.

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PHA Biorefineries:

PolyHydroxyAlkanoates properties similar to polypropylene

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Methane (biogas) Microbial process Biopolymer Products Waste facility

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Plastics from Biogas

Mango Materials  Phase II STTR award for production of biopolymers in a microgravity environment.

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Single use items from PLA: Thermal Stability

a b c

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Grow Plastics Technology in Packaging Lower Cost

Beat Solid Plastics

  • n Price by up to 40%
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http://www.biopreferred.gov/ The BioPreferred program gives venders a significant advantage in filling federal

  • contractors. This can be HUGE when filling military contracts, etc.

Biobased content measured by the ratio of C-14 to C-12 (ASTM D6866)

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Bioproducts & Biofuels Research

Bioproducts

Gregory Glenn Bor-Sen Chiou De Wood William Hart-Cooper William Orts Charles Lee Kurt Wagschal Dominic Wong

Biofuels Rubber & Oil

Colleen McMahan Grace Chen Tom McKeon A player to be named later

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William Orts  510-559-5730 bill.orts@ars.usda.gov

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Gene Lester National Program Leader, Bioproducts Gene.Lester@ars.usda.gov (301) 504-4616

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