Annual Report- Part III - Florida Energy Systems Consortium

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acterial biocatalysts for production of biofuels and chemical feedstocks.2. Develop Gram positive biocatalysts for direct conversion of hemicelluloses to biobased products.3. Develop systems with bacterial biocatalysts for efficient bioconversion of the hemicellulose fractionsof perennial energy crops (poplar, eucalyptus, switchgrass, energy cane) to targeted products.Budget: $192,000External Collaborators: Collaborations are in various units within the University of Florida: L.O. Ingramand K.T. Shanmugam, Microbiology and Cell Science; F. Altpeter, Agronomy; G. Peter, Forest Resourcesand Conservation.Title: Thermophilic Biocatalysts for the Conversion of Cellulosic Substrates to Fuels and ChemicalsPI: K.T. Shanmugam - UFDescription: Biomass is an attractive source of sugars for a state like Florida that produces very limitedamount of corn for fermentation to produce ethanol as transportation fuel or other products such as lacticacid that can be converted to bioplastics. Florida currently generates about 8.7 million tons of dry cellulosicbiomass per year (US-DOE) that can be converted to about 0.7 billion gallons of ethanol. With specificenergy crops and short rotation trees cultivated for energy production using the abundant sunshine andwater resources, the ethanol produced from biomass can be significantly increased to meet the demand fortransportation fuel in the State of Florida. Before biomass-based fuels and chemicals become an economicreality, several key steps in the depolymerization of biomass to constituent sugars need to be addressed.One is depolymerization of cellulose to glucose by fungal cellulases before fermentation to ethanol bymicrobes. The current estimated cost of fungal cellulases is $0.32 per gallon ethanol produced and this costis targeted for reduction to $0.10 or less by year 2012 (DOE). We have demonstrated that by increasing thetemperature of Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation (SSF) of cellulose from 30-35 ºC to 50-55ºC, the amount (and associated cost) of cellulases can be reduced by the required 3-fold with the currentcommercial enzyme preparations. A microbial biocatalyst that produces ethanol or other chemicals as themain fermentation product and can also function at this higher temperature and pH 5.0 in conjunction withthe fungal cellulases in the SSF process is a critical component of this process. We have identified athermophilic facultative anaerobe, Bacillus coagulans, with versatile metabolic capability as the microbialplatform for the SSF of biomass to products and engineering this L(+)-lactic acid producing bacterium toproduce ethanol. The primary objective of this proposed study is to construct a B. coagulans derivative thatproduces ethanol as primary product of fermentation and to enhance the ethanol productivity of theengineered derivative.Budget: $192,000This project has been completedBio gasificationTitle: Combined Cooling, Heat, Power, and Biofuel from Biomass and Solid WastePI: William Lear, Co-PI: J.N. Chung - UFDescription: The goal of this project is to provide the underlying research and demonstration of a noveltechnology which would enable the economic utilization of dispersed biomass and solid waste resources toproduce electric power, cooling, heat, and transportation fuels. This integrated gasification and powergeneration system combines University of Florida advances in high-temperature gasification, hydrogengeneration and separation, and advanced gas turbine systems. Their integration is expected to result insignificant improvements in the cost, emissions, feedstock flexibility, and water requirements, all in arelatively compact, modular plant system. This in turn will enable much greater utilization of renewableenergy supplies, helping the development of a sustainable energy supply infrastructure.Budget: $576,00069
External Collaborators: Siemens Power Generation, Florida Turbine Technologies, Energy Concepts Co.,Nu-Power Technologies LLC, PlanetGreenSolutions Inc., LPP Combustion, LLC.Back to Thrust 1: OverarchingThermo-Chemical ConversionTitle: Production of Liquid Fuels Biomass via Thermo-Chemical Conversion ProcessesPI: Babu Joseph, Co-PIs: Yogi Goswami, Venkat Bhethanabotla, John Wolan, Vinay Gupta - USFDescription: The objective of this project is to develop technology for the economical thermo-chemicalconversion of lingocellulosic biomass (non-food grade biomass such as agricultural waste, bagasse fromsugar mills, citrus peels, switch grass, municipal green waste, etc.) to clean burning liquid fuels. Five of themajor advantages of this process over a biochemical route to production of ethanol are: (i) it does not utilizefood-grade feed stocks and therefore complements and does not compete with the agricultural foodproduction in the state, (ii) the fuel produced is similar to those derived from petroleum unlike ethanolderived fuels which have at least a 25% lower energy content, (iii) the conversion is accomplished in usingfast chemical reactions unlike the slow biological reactions for fermenting alcohol, (iv) the process does notrequire large amounts of water and associated energy costs of separating the water from the fuel as inbioethanol processes, (v) it can utilize a wide variety of biomass sources unlike the biochemical routewhich cannot work with high lignin containing biomass.Budget: $554,447External Collaborators: Prado & AssociatesTitle: Feasibility, Sustainability and Economic Analysis of Solar Assisted Biomass ConversionPI: Babu Joseph, Co-PI: Q. Zhang - USFDescription: The main deterrent for commercialization of biomass conversion processes is the cost ofconversion; particularly the need to sacrifice as much as 30% of the energy content in the biomass for thethermo chemical conversion step. We want to research and develop the concept to use solar thermal energyfrom concentrating units to provide energy for the biomass gasification step. We also propose to evaluatethe sustainability of such a process.Overall Objective: The overall objective is to conduct a theoretical analysis of solar assisted thermochemical conversion of biomass from the point of view of energy efficiency, economic feasibility,environmental impact, and long term sustainability of renewable energy production.Budget: $45,238Title: Integrated Florida Bio-Energy IndustryPI: Ali T-Raissi Co-PIs: N.Z. Muradov, D.L. Block - UCF/FSECDescription: The aim of this project continues to be production of liquid hydrocarbon fuels derived fromlignocellulosic and aquatic biomass employing a two-step thermocatalytic process. In the first step, pretreatedbiomass is gasified with oxygen (or air) and steam yielding synthesis gas (syngas) containinghydrogen and carbon monoxide. In the second step, syngas generated by the gasifier enters a FischerTropsch (FT) synthesis unit where it reacts to form a range of liquid hydrocarbon fuels – including diesel.Budget: $648,000Title: Biofuels Through Thermochemical Processes: Approach to Produce Bio-Jet FuelPI: Anjaneyulu Krothapalli - FSUDescription: The objective of this project was to develop technologies to produce biojet and biodiesel fuelsfrom sustainable sources such as bio-oils and hydrogen produced from biomass generated synthetic gas.Novel processing concepts, reactor design and catalyst systems are employed in this integrated approach toconvert any cellulosic biomass and any nonedible bio-oils into bio-jet fuel (Figure 1). Feedstock flexibilityoffers significant cost and logistic advantages to this approach. Unlike other processes which use only the70
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