Integrated Biorefinery Optimization program awards UT-Knoxville $3 million

January 4, 2018 |

In Washington, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded nearly $3 million to improve biorefinery technologies through the Integrated Biorefinery Optimization (IBO) program. The funding comes from NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), which addresses challenges in food and agricultural sciences through research, extension, and education.

Through IBO, the grant will fund research totaling $2,994,429 at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The project proposes to develop and commercialize solvent fractionated lignins to polymeric products for their potential market in building and construction sectors. The overarching objective of the proposed research is to develop integrated pathways for the extraction of value-added polymeric products from lignin waste/under-valued stream from biorefinery.

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