Conversion Technologies for Advanced Biofuels Workshop (CTAB) Report Out February 9, 2012 Webinar
On December 6-8, 2011 the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biomass program hosted a workshop at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, VA to update its existing technology roadmaps to focus on advanced hydrocarbon biofuel production from lignocellulosic materials. The new roadmaps will highlight research barriers to scaling-up process technologies necessary to generate and upgrade bio-oil and carbohydrate intermediates from biomass to fungible, “drop-in” replacements for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
This webinar will summarize findings from 16 breakout sessions held over the two day span (link to background material, presentations and the conference agenda here: http://sentech.srahosting.com/CTAB/). Subject matter experts who chaired the sessions will weigh-in on how the DOE Biomass Program can most effectively guide R&D in the future to help advance the commercial biofuels industry. READ MORE
Critical technical barrier areas and research activities indentified during the workshop were a central theme of the webinar and were presented by the subject matter experts who led the breakout sessions. The webinar also highlighted talks on broad technical issues (such as separation and catalysis) and innovative methods of biomass processing (such as hybrid conversion systems and lignin utilization). The information collected at the CTAB Workshop will form the basis of an upcoming roadmap document on research challenges and research and development activities for the commercial development of advanced biofuel technologies, slated for publication in late 2012.
- DOE Overview presentation
- Bio-Oils Introduction presentation
- Bio-Oils Production presentation
- Bio-Oils Upgrading presentation
- Carbohydrates Introduction presentation
- Carbohydrates Production presentation
- Carbohydrates Upgrading presentation
- Crosscutting Technologies for Advanced Biofuels presentation
- Innovative Topics for Advanced Biofuels presentation
Workshop on Conversion Technologies for Advanced Biofuels
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Biomass program held a workshop on December 6-8, 2011 in the Washington D.C. area to update its existing technology roadmaps to focus on advanced hydrocarbon biofuel production from lignocellulosic materials. This event focused on the generation of sugars and bio-oils from biomass, and upgrading sugars and bio-oils to fungible, “drop-in” replacements for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The meeting also addressed feedstock supply and logistics considerations, blending requirements for finished fuels, and processing of bio-oils in petroleum refinery infrastructure. Other innovative, niche topics were addressed in special sessions on the 7th and 8th, including utilization of lignin and hybrid biochemical/thermochemical processing routes. READ MORE
Breaking the Biological Barriers to Cellulosic Ethanol
Biomass Program Multi-Year Program Plan
Presentations
- Introduction to Roadmapping Session
- Plenary_OBP Introduction – Valerie Reed.pdf
- Plenary_Feedstock Preprocessing for Conversion – Kevin Kenney.pdf
- Roadmaps_BC Breaking the Barriers – Pezzullo.pdf
- Roadmaps_TC Breaking the Barriers – Grabowski.pdf
- Roadmaps_Densification Workshop – Hess.pdf
- Design Cases_Biochemical Route – Bratis.pdf
- Design Cases_Pyrolysis Route – Male.pdf
- Design Cases_Future Design Case – Valkenburg.pdf
- Upgrading Biomass Derived Intermediates
- Modification of chemical composition during bio-oil upgrading
Bio-oil 1.1 Intro Presentation_Elliott, Jones.pdf - Removal of destabilizing components during bio-oil upgrading
Bio-oil 1.2 Intro Presentation_Davis, Lewnard.pdf - Selective fractionation in upgrading bio-oils
Bio-oil 1.3 Intro Presentation_Biddy, Galloway.pdf - Chemical conversion of sugars and carbohydrate derivatives
Sugars 1.1 Intro Presentation_Lilga, Held.pdf - Biological conversion of sugars and carbohydrate derivatives
Sugars 1.2 Intro Presentation_Panisko, Granda.pdf
- Production Biomass Derived Intermediates
- Modification of chemical composition during bio-oil production
Bio-oil 2.1 Intro Presentation_Snyder, Whitty.pdf - Removal of destabilizing components during bio-oil production
Bio-oil 2.2 Intro Presentation_Babu, Dayton.pdf - Selective fractionation in producing bio-oils
Bio-oil 2.3 Intro Presentation_Czernik, Brown.pdf - Pretreatment and enzymatic routes to sugars
Sugars 2.1 Intro Presentation_Elander, Ladisch.pdf - Non-enzymatic routes to sugars from biomass (with or without pretreatment)
Sugars 2.2 Intro Presentation_Gresham, Dinello.pdf
- Innovative Topics
- Hybrid biochemical/thermochemical processing systems
Innovative Topic_Hybrid Biomass Processing Systems.pdf
