Sustainable US Biofuels Expansion - Faap
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Exploring Routes to Convert Biomass<br />
Feedstock<br />
Production<br />
& Logistics<br />
• Energy<br />
crops<br />
• Forest<br />
Residue<br />
• Agricultural<br />
wastes<br />
• Algae<br />
Integrated Biorefineries<br />
Biochemical Conversion<br />
Pretreatment &<br />
Conditioning<br />
Distillation<br />
Enzymatic<br />
Hydrolysis<br />
Sugars Fermentation<br />
Enzyme<br />
By-Products<br />
Production<br />
Wastes/Residue<br />
Thermochemical Conversion<br />
Upgrading<br />
Fast Liquid Zeolite Cracking<br />
Pyrolysis Bio-oil Hydrogenolysis<br />
Gasification Syngas<br />
Lipid (Oil)<br />
Extraction<br />
Algal<br />
Oil<br />
Fischer Tropsch<br />
Alcohol Synthesis<br />
Transesterification<br />
Upgrading<br />
R E F I N I N G<br />
Research on multiple conversion pathways aims to improve the<br />
efficiency and economics of biofuels production.<br />
DDGS (corn)<br />
Lignin<br />
(for power)<br />
Ethanol<br />
Butanol<br />
Olefins<br />
Gasoline<br />
Diesel<br />
Others<br />
Program Areas & Key Challenges<br />
Feedstock<br />
Systems<br />
– Diverse regional<br />
biomass<br />
resources<br />
– Yield & price<br />
– Water & fertilizer<br />
– Land use<br />
– Metrics &<br />
standards<br />
Sustainability<br />
Research & Development Demonstration & Deployment<br />
Conversion Technologies<br />
Biochemical<br />
– Cost & Efficiency<br />
• Pretreatments<br />
• Enzymes/yields<br />
– Fermentation<br />
Thermochemical<br />
– Cost & Efficiency<br />
– Gasification Process<br />
– Fuel Stabilization<br />
• GHG emissions<br />
• Water quality<br />
• Land use<br />
• Socioeconomics<br />
Integrated<br />
Biorefineries<br />
– Integrating<br />
process<br />
technologies<br />
– Financing<br />
– Technical<br />
expertise<br />
– Profit potential<br />
Product Development<br />
− Fuel purity & cost<br />
− By-products/markets<br />
− Infrastructure compatibility<br />
Major DOE <strong>Biofuels</strong> Project Locations<br />
Pacific Ethanol<br />
(Boardman, OR)<br />
Nov ozymes<br />
(Dav is, CA)<br />
Genencor<br />
(Palo Alto, CA)<br />
Ceres, Inc<br />
(Thousand Oaks, CA)<br />
Verenium Corp (2)<br />
(San Diego, CA)<br />
BlueFire Ethanol<br />
(Mecca, CA)<br />
Eight Small-Scale Biorefinery Projects<br />
Four Commercial-Scale Biorefinery Projects<br />
Four Improved Enzyme Projects<br />
Emery Energy<br />
(Salt Lake City, UT)<br />
Five Projects for Fermentation Organisms<br />
Five Thermochemical Syngas Projects<br />
DOE Joint Solicitation Biomass Projects<br />
Five Thermochemical Bio-Oil Projects<br />
Six University Conversion Projects<br />
Montana State University<br />
(Bozeman, MT)<br />
Lignol<br />
(Grand Junction, CO)<br />
Abengoa<br />
(Hugoton, KS )<br />
Cargill Inc<br />
(Minneapolis, MN)<br />
Flambeau Riv er<br />
(Park Falls, WI)<br />
NewPage<br />
(Wisconsin Rapids, WI)<br />
Poet<br />
(Emmetsburg, IA)<br />
Office of Science Bioenergy<br />
Centers<br />
DOE Great Lakes, Madison, WI<br />
DOE Joint Bioenergy Institute, Berkeley,<br />
CA<br />
DOE Bioenergy Science Center, Oak<br />
Ridge, TN<br />
Univ ersity of Minnesota<br />
(Minneapolis, MN)<br />
Iowa State (3) Univ ersity<br />
(Ames, IA)<br />
UOP, LLC<br />
(De s Plaines, IL)<br />
Infrastructure<br />
– Transport<br />
– Storage<br />
– Codes &<br />
Standards<br />
(Blend wall)<br />
– Demand/<br />
markets<br />
– Compatibility<br />
• Predictive Modeling<br />
• International<br />
Purdue Univ ersity (2)<br />
(West Lafaye tte, IN)<br />
Alltech<br />
Env irofine<br />
(Washington<br />
County, KY)<br />
Southern Research<br />
Institute<br />
(Birmingham, AL)<br />
Mascoma<br />
(Kinross, MI)<br />
Gas Technology Institute<br />
(Des Plaines, IL)<br />
Verenium <strong>Biofuels</strong> Corp.<br />
(Jennings, LA)<br />
Georgia Tech<br />
(Atlanta, GA)<br />
Range Fuels<br />
(Soperton, GA)<br />
Mascoma<br />
(Lebanon, NH)<br />
Univ ersity of Georgia<br />
(Athens, GA)<br />
Univ ersity of Maine<br />
(Orono, ME)<br />
Regional<br />
Partnerships<br />
South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD<br />
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY<br />
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN<br />
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK<br />
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR<br />
RSE Pulp &<br />
Chemical, LLC<br />
(Old Town, ME)<br />
Cornell Univ ersity Univ ersity of Mass<br />
(Ithaca, NY)<br />
(Amherst, MA)<br />
GE Global Research<br />
(Niskayuna, NY)<br />
Stevens Institute of<br />
Technology<br />
(Hoboken NJ)<br />
Univ eristy of<br />
Toledo<br />
(Toldeo, OH)<br />
Virginia Tech<br />
(Blacksburg, VA)<br />
DSM Innovation Center<br />
(Parsippany, NJ)<br />
Dupont<br />
(Wilmington, DE )<br />
Research Triangle Institute (2)<br />
(Research Triangle Park, NC)<br />
Modified 10/1/2008
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