The Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance has issued requests for proposals in four areas identified in its Next-Generation Pulping Technology Roadmap published this summer.  

The four RFPs cover the following topics:

1. Yield-protective pretreatment—Develop pretreatments or in situ pulping additives that reduce the impact of the peeling reaction on kraft pulping yield 
2. Accelerate delignification—Develop strategies or in situ pulping additives that increase the rate of delignification without increasing the rate of carbohydrate degradation 
3. Catalytic delignification—E valuate transition or main group metals that can perform two-electron oxidation and/or serve as a delignifying chemical system
4. Improve O2 delignification selectivity to enable higher-kappa—Develop methods to delignify higher-yield (higher Kappa) pulps to conventional residual lignin levels through enhanced oxygen delignification.

Agenda 2020 member companies will fund as many as three high-quality, responsive proposals. The proposals should be one to two years in duration and should not exceed $150,000 total ($75,000 per year).   

 

Proposals in response to this RFP are due no later than 5 p.m. (EST) on Friday Sept. 2, 2016. Selections will be announced on approximately Oct. 10, 2016. 

For copies of the RFP’s or further information, please contact  David Turpin..