{"411731":{"#nid":"411731","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Roman Popil Presents at TAPPI CorrExpo","body":[{"value":"IPST\u2019s Roman Popil presented a paper at the October 2013 TAPPI CorrExpo conference in Indianapolis.\u0026nbsp; The presentation, titled \u0022The BCT of Copy Paper Boxes - Applying McKee\u0027s Formula\u0022 is based on a specialty testing project for a major paper manufacturing client.\u003Cp\u003EThe original \u0022McKee equation\u0022 for predicting box compression strength was published by IPC in 1963 and has remained in use. Dr. Popil\u2019s talk showed how a popular simplified form of the equation can be applied to the special case of copy paper boxes by fitting the constants of the equation to experimental data obtained.\u0026nbsp; The result is that the client is able to discriminate the stacking performance of copy paper boxes through a box compression test prediction based on some simple measurements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt IPST, Dr. Popil manages the Paper Analysis Lab (PAL) focused on assisting industry customers with troubleshooting quality issues, product development or optimization through physical properties characterization.\u0026nbsp; The PAL also develops new instrumentation and test methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Popil was the principal investigator for the Engineered Packaging and Products elective research consortium project.\u0026nbsp; The project resulted in published articles on a predictive model for corrugated board performance, corrugated board shear, and compression strength measurement techniques, and the development and evaluation of wax replacement coatings for corrugated containers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Popil earned his PhD in experimental plasma physics from the University of British Columbia.\u0026nbsp; He has been granted three patents and authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications.\u003C\/p\u003EThe presentation and the accompanying article from the October TAPPI CorrExpo, can be found at:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipst.gatech.edu\/faculty\/popil_roman\/newsletters\/The%20BCT%20of%20Copy%20Paper%20Boxes.pdf\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/ipst.gatech.edu\/faculty\/popil_roman\/newsletters\/The%20BCT%20of%20Copy%20Paper%20Boxes.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipst.gatech.edu\/faculty\/popil_roman\/newsletters\/Box%20Compression%20for%20Copy%20Paper%20Boxes%20-%20Applying%20McKee\u0026#039;s%20Formula%20%20-final.pdf\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/ipst.gatech.edu\/faculty\/popil_roman\/newsletters\/Box%20Compression%20for%20Copy%20Paper%20Boxes%20-%20Applying%20McKee\u0027s%20Formula%20%20-final.pdf\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Popil  presents paper at TAPPI 2013 CorrExpo conference"}],"uid":"27178","created_gmt":"2015-06-08 11:14:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:33","author":"Amna Jamshad","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"411721":{"id":"411721","type":"image","title":"Roman Popil","body":null,"created":"1449254211","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:51","changed":"1475895142","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:22","alt":"Roman Popil","file":{"fid":"202319","name":"131209_popil.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131209_popil_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/131209_popil_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8024,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/131209_popil_0.jpg?itok=PtULOZk6"}}},"media_ids":["411721"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1270","name":"conference"},{"id":"2106","name":"Paper"},{"id":"93811","name":"RBI"},{"id":"4174","name":"renewable"},{"id":"125221","name":"TAPPI"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, Marketing \u0026amp; Communication\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@ipst.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}