Skip to content | Change text size
Picture of Professor Gil Garnier

Professor  Gil Garnier

Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA (1993)
M. Eng. Chemical Engineering, Sherbrooke University, Canada (1989)
B. Eng. Chemical Engineering, Sherbrooke University, Canada (1986)

Professor, Director of APPI

email: gil.garnier@eng.monash.edu.au
tel: +61 3 9905 9180
fax: +61 3 9905 3413
Room G14, Building 59 Engineering

Professional Appointments

  • 2005-Present: Director, Australian Pulp and Paper Institute (APPI)
  • 2005- Present: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University
  • 2001-2005: Senior Research Scientist, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, WI, USA.
  • 1993-2004: Paprican Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Canada.
  • 1993-2001: Paprican Research Engineer, Canada

Professional Affiliations 

  • American Chemical Society
  • APPITA

Current Research and Professional Interests 

  • Application of colloids and polymers to surfaces
  • Papermaking
  • Adhesion
  • Biopolymers and Composites

Selected Publications

  • Pigeon, C., Garnier, G . and T.G.M. van de Ven, “The Performance of a PEO-Cofactor-Bentonite Retention and Drainage Aid System on a Laboratory Twin-Wire Sheet Former”, J. Pulp Paper Sci. 30 (4), 112-116, (2004).
  • Shirazi, M., van de Ven, T.G.M. and Garnier, G., “Adsorption of Modified Starches on Pulp Fibers”, Langmuir, 19 (26), 10835-10842 (2003).
  • Shirazi, M., Garnier, G. and van de Ven, T.G.M., “Adsorption of Modified Starches on Porous Glass”, Langmuir, 19 (26), 10829-10834 (2003).
  • Modaressi, H. and Garnier, G., “Mechanism of Wetting and Absorption of Water Droplets on Sized Paper: Effects of Chemical and Physical Heterogeneity”, Langmuir, 18 (3), pp. 642-649 (2002).
  • Saint-Cyr, K., van de Ven, T.G.M. and G. Garnier, “Adsorption of Yellowing Inhibitors on Mechanical Pulp” J. Pulp Paper Sci., 28 (3), pp. 78-84 (2002).
  • Yu, L. and G. Garnier, “The role of vapors during internal sizing: a comparative study between AKD and ASA”, J. Pulp Paper Sci., 28 (10), pp. 327-331 (2002).
  • Cho, B.-U., Garnier, G., Paradis, J. and Perrier, J., “The Process Dynamics of Filler Retention in Paper using a CPAM/bentonite retention aid system”. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 79 (6), pp. 923-930 (2001).
  • Van de Ven, T.G.M., Sauve, C.P. and Garnier, G. “Deinking of Recycled Fibers in a Flotation Flow Loop”. Colloids and Surfaces, A., 192 (1-3), pp. 53-60 (2001).
  • Asselman, T. and Garnier G. “Polymer transfer during fines detachment: mechanism and implications” J. Pulp Paper Sci., 27 (2), pp.60-65 (2001).
  • Asselman, T. and Garnier, G. “The flocculation mechanism of micro-particulate retention systems”.J. Pulp Paper Sci., 27 (8), pp.273-278 (2001).
  • Cho, B.-U., Garnier, G., Paradis, J. and Perrier, M., Filler Retention with a CPAM/Bentonite RetentionSystem, Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal,16 (3) pp.188-194 (2001).
  • Asselman, T., Alince, B., Garnier, G. and T.G.M. van de Ven, Mechanism of Polyacrylamide-Bentonite Microparticulate Retention Aids, Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal, 15 (5) pp. 515-519 (2000).
  • Garnier, G., Duskova-Smrckova, M., R.Vyhnalkova, T.G.M. van de Ven and J.-F. Revol
  • Association in Solution and Adsorption at an Air-Water Interface of Alternating Copolymers of Maleic anhydride and Styrene. Langmuir, 16(8) pp. 3757-3763 (2000).
  • Asselman, T., and G. Garnier, The mechanism of polyelectrolyte transfer during co-flocculation. Langmuir, 16 (11), 4871-4876 (2000).
  • Asselman, T., and G. Garnier Adsorption of Model Wood Polymers and Colloids on Bentonites. Colloids and Surfaces, A, 168, pp. 175-182 (2000)
  • Asselman, T., and G. Garnier Dynamics of polymer-induced co-flocculation of wood fibres and fines. Colloids and Surfaces, A ,174 (3), pp.297-306 (2000).
  • Asselman, T., and G. Garnier The role of anionic micro-particles in a poly(acrylamide)-montmorillonite flocculation aid system. Colloids and Surfaces, A, 170 (1), pp.79-90 (2000).
  • Garnier G. and L. Godbout Wetting behavior of alkyl ketene dimer on cellulos and model surfaces, J. Pulp Paper Sci., 26 (5), pp. 194-199 (2000)
  • Cho, B.-U., and G. Garnier, Effect of the Paper Composition and Structure on the Surface Sizing Pick-up. Tappi Journal 83 (12), pp. 60- (2000).
  • Hammock, C., and G. Garnier, The laboratory Twin-Former, Part 1: Design and Performance. Tappi Journal, 83(10), 61 (2000).
  • Garnier, G., and L. Yu Wetting Mechanism of a Starch Stabilized Alkyl Ketene Dimer Emulsion: A Study by Atomic Force Microscopy. J. Pulp Paper Sci., 25 (7) pp.235-250 (July 1999).
  • Garnier, G., M. Bertin, and M. Smrkova, Wetting Dynamics of Alkyl Ketene Dimers on Model Surfaces. Langmuir, 15 (22), pp. 7863-7869 (1999).
  • Smrckova, M., Vyhnalkova, R. and Garnier, G. Association of Alternating poly(styrene-maleic acid) in aqueous solution and adsorption at an air-liquid interface. Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering 80, pp. 337-338 (1999).
  • Carignan, A., G. Garnier and T.G.M. van de Ven, The Flocculation of Fines by PEO/Cofactor Retention Aid Systems. J. Pulp Paper Sci., 26(3), 94-99 (1998).
  • Garnier, G., J. Wright, L. Godbout and L. Yu, Wetting Mechanisms of Alkyl Ketene Dimers (AKD) on Cellulose Films, Colloids and Surfaces A, 145, 153-165 (1998).
  • Fernandes, C., and G. Garnier, Retention of Fatty Acid Soaps during Recycling, Part I. A Study using Packed Beds of Pulp Fibers. J. Pulp Paper Sci., 23(4), J144-152 (1997).
  • Yu, L., and G. Garnier. Mechanism of Internal Sizing with Alkyl Ketene Dimers: The Role of Vapour Deposition.Fundamentals of Papermaking Materials, Transactions of the 11th Fundamental Research Symposium in the Oxford and Cambridge Series, Vol. 2, pp 1021-1046 (Sept. 1997).

Patents

  • US 6,824,650 and WO 2003052206 A1. Fibrous Materials Treated with Polyvinylamine Polymer, Lindsay, J., Shannon, T.G., Goulet, M., Runge, T., Branham, K., Flugge, L., Foster, J., Lang, F., Sun, T. and Garnier, G., filed Dec 18 2001, November 30, 2004 .
  • US 6,861,380, “Tissue product having reduced lint and slough, Garnier, G.”, and Hu, S.H., March 1, 2005.
  • US 6,887,350, “Tissue Products Having Enhanced Strength”, Garnier, G., Tirimacco, M., Behm, R. and Hu, S.H., May 3 2005.
  • US 2004/0118533 A1 and WO 2004061232A1. Process for bonding chemical additives on to substrates containing cellulosic materials and products thereof, Shannon, T.G., Garnier, G.B.D., Negri, A., Goulet, filed December 23 2003, published June 24 2004.
  • US 2004/0118540 A1 and WO 2004061235A1. Bicomponent strengthening system for paper. Garnier, G., Lindsay, J.D., Shannon, T.G., Lostocco, M., Hansen, L., Branham, K., Siderius, D., filed December 20 2002, published June 24 2004.