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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 USDA’s chief scientific research agency $1.1 Billion annual budget 1,800 PhD-level scientists 6,000 other employees 100+ research locations 2

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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

Rubber Tapping: Strategic Materials Rubber is mainly tapped in Southeast Asia • Tapping is labor intensive. • Palm oil plantations are displacing rubber. 7

Making Tires From a Desert Shrub Found in the U.S. By DIANE CARDWELL AUG. 18, 2015 Colleen McMahan 8

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 9 program to develop domestic rubber tires.

Grace Chen

Integrated Biorefinery Based on MSW and Ag-Derived Biomass 11

Food scraps, 12% Yard trimmings, 12% Plastics, 11% Paper, 36% Metals, 8% Rubber, leather, & textiles , 7% Others, 3% Wood, 6% Glass, 5% 425 million tons per year of unsorted MSW produced in U.S. (BioCycle)

• Pressurized hot water treatment. • Reduces volume. • Isolates recyclables • Fractionates components

Conveyor loading MSW to autoclave

MSW prior to steam treatment

Post-Autoclave MSW Sorting >1” 3/8” ½” 1” Trommel Screen Trommel Screen Side View Frontal View 18

Clean fiber from MSW after centrifugal cleaners 19

Cellulose Recovery from Autoclaved MSW Processed paper from recovered fiber

Enzymatic hydrolysis of MSW 80 70 60 % Conversion 50 40 5 % solids 30 0.05 M citrate buffer 50 FPU/g 20 200 CBU/g 55 0 C 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Time (hrs) 21 Untreated MSW Autohydrolyzed MSW Autohydrolyzed/Extracted MSW

Anaerobic digestion: Biogas from wastes Autoclave High solids anaerobic digester Weir Trommel 3/8” minus Screen 1/2” minus 1” minus Receiving slope Reaction zone Attached 1” plus growth zone • startup  300 gal H 2 O + 300 gal WAS (87 lbs db) • dewater to 20 % solids • target 37 o C by heating attached growth zone • periodic hydraulic mixing (15 min every 6 h) • maintain neutral pH without chemical addition 22 Kevin Holtman - USDA

Compressed Biomethane vs Ethanol Ethanol • A chieve 70 gallons per mt of autoclave MSW product (dry basis). Biomethane • 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). HELP! European anaerobic digestion technology is significantly ahead of U.S. development. 23

PHA Biorefineries: PolyHydroxyAlkanoates properties similar to polypropylene 24

Methane Waste facility (biogas) Microbial Products process Biopolymer 25

Plastics from Biogas Mango Materials  Phase II STTR award for production of biopolymers in a microgravity environment. 26

Single use items from PLA: Thermal Stability a b c 27

Grow Plastics Technology in Packaging Lower Cost Beat Solid Plastics on Price by up to 40% 28

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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)

Bioproducts & Biofuels Research Biofuels William Orts Charles Lee Kurt Wagschal Dominic Wong Bioproducts Gregory Glenn Bor-Sen Chiou De Wood William Hart-Cooper Rubber & Oil Colleen McMahan Grace Chen Tom McKeon A player to be named later

William Orts  510-559-5730 bill.orts@ars.usda.gov 32

Gene Lester National Program Leader, Bioproducts Gene.Lester@ars.usda.gov 33 (301) 504-4616

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