PIMA/APPTI Decarbonization Investigations Webinar Series - Decarbonization

Series Schedule

• October 10, 2024 – Decarbonization; Dr. Matthew Realff
  
• October 22, 2024 – Bio-gas; TBD
  
• November 5, 2024 – Lime Kiln; Lokendra Pal and Peter Gorog
• November 19, 2024 – AI; Pat Dixon

The use of carbon capture for fossil fuel emissions is becoming better understood, though technology development is still occurring as demonstrations are happening now at various manufacturing segments in the world.  There is still much to understand when it comes to biogenic carbon emissions and whether the existing pilot scale technologies will function properly.  Dr. Realff will review the current technology of carbon emissions and carbon capture / beneficial use, where it is being applied and what are the challenges for the pulp and paper industry to adapt these technologies.

Speaker: Dr. Matthew Realff

Professor Realff [pronounced RELF] (BChE, Imperial College, U.K., Ph.D. ChE, MIT, U.S.A) is the David Wang Senior Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech where he has been a faculty member since 1993. Professor Realff's overall research interests are in process and sustainable systems engineering. His primary research foci are process modeling for CO2 capture processes and biomolecular systems engineering to produce biochemicals and biofuels. In this capacity he is a Strategic Coordinator for the Georgia Tech Renewable Bioproducts Institute developing programs in chemicals and fuels and he is the Associate Director of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute leading its theme of “Energy in a Carbon Constrained World.” He is co-director of a new Georgia Tech center on Direct Air Capture – DirACC. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing.

Moderator: Christopher O. Luettgen, Ph.D.

Executive Director and CEO
Alliance for Pulp & Paper Technology Innovation

Professor of the Practice                      
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
College of Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Strategic Initiative Lead, Pulp, Paper, Packaging and Tissue, Renewable Bioproducts Institute, an Interdisciplinary Research Institute at GT

Director, GT Pulp and Paper Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Program and Foundation

In April 2023, Luettgen became the Executive Director of APPTI, a consortium based association with the mission to promote the development of advanced manufacturing technologies for the P&P industry.

He has 25 plus years of industry experience, with Scott Paper and Kimberly-Clark Corp., where he most recently served as head of North American Innovation for the Professional business sector. He has held positions in product development and innovation, capital project management and manufacturing facility leadership.

Luettgen has served on the Georgia Tech Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) Industry Board of Advisors, and as the Chairman of the Board of the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry (TAPPI) and is a TAPPI Fellow.  He earned his BS degree in Paper Engineering at Western Michigan University (’85), his MS degree at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, WI (’87), and his PhD at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology - now RBI (’91).

He rejoined GT in November 2014 as a Professor of the Practice in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Associate Director of Pulp, Paper, at RBI. He also serves as the Director of the undergraduate Pulp and Paper Certificate Program, Endowment and Foundation.