$73 Million, 35 Projects, Who Won, for What and Why: The DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office 2019 Project Selections
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy has selected 35 projects totaling $73 million for bioenergy research and development support. Funded through the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, these projects will help reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources.
“The main goal of DOE’s bioenergy R&D is to produce affordable biofuels that are compatible with existing fueling infrastructure and vehicles across a range of transportation modes, including renewable-gasoline, -diesel, and -jet fuels,” said Secretary Rick Perry. “These projects will reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources, while creating American jobs and strengthening our economy and energy security.”
Who are the winners? In today’s Digest, below, the complete list, the partners, the projects, the milestones, the goals, the projects, the milestones, and everything you could possibly need or want to know. READ MORE
Department of Energy Announces $73 million for 35 Projects for Bioenergy Research and Development (U.S. Department of Energy)
Optimizing Selection Pressures and Pest Management to Maximize Algal Biomass Yield [OSPREY]
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Innovations in Algae Cultivation
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Algal Productivity Enhancements by Rapid Screening and Selection of Improved Biomass and Lipid Producing Phototrophs (APEX)
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Improving the Productivity and Performance of Large-Scale Integrated Algal Systems for Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production
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Decision-Model Supported Algal Cultivation Process Enhancement
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Enhanced Feedstock Characterization and Modeling to Facilitate Optimal Preprocessing and Deconstruction of Corn Stover
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SWIFT: Single-pass, Weather Independent Fractionation Technology for Improved Property Control of Corn Stover Feedstock
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Sulfur Profiling in Pine Residues and Its Impact on Thermochemical Conversion
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Polymer products from lignin through de-aromatization and COOH functionalization
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Modeling Feedstock Performance and Conversion Operations
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Machine Learning Based Modeling Framework to Relate Biomass Tissue Properties With Handling And Conversion Performances
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Characterization of Mechanical Biomass Particle-Particle and Particle-Wall Interactions
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TRIFTS Catalytic Conversion of Biogas to Drop-in Renewable Diesel Fuel
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Production of Liquid Hydrocarbons from Biomass Generated Carbon Dioxide
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Integrated Reactive Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis System for Advanced Hydrocarbon Biofuels
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Integration of IH2 with the Cool H2 Reformer for the Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass to Drop in Fuel
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Higher Energy-content Jet Blending Components Derived from Ethanol
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Cellulosic Derived Advantaged Jet Fuel
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Production Of Renewable Cycloalkanes From Ethanol For Blending With Jet Fuel To Enhance Energy Density And Material Compatibility And Reduce Particulate Emissions
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Electro-Enhanced Conversion of Wet Waste to Products Beyond Methane
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Towards Economical Cell-free Isobutanol Production
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Accelerating Polyketide Synthase Engineering for High TRY Production of Biofuels and Bioproducts
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Developing Multi-Gene CRISPRa/i Programs to Accelerate DBTL Cycles in ABF Hosts Engineered for Chemical Production
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ResIn: Responsible Innovation for Highly Recyclable Plastics
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Recyclable Thermoset Polymers from Lignin Derived Phenols
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Bioconversion of Heterogeneous Polyester Wastes to High-Value Chemical Products
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Upcycling of CFRP Waste: Viable Eco-friendly Chemical Recycling and Manufacturing of Novel Repairable and Recyclable Composites
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Novel and Viable Technologies for Converting Wet Organic Waste Streams to High Value Products
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An Advanced Pretreatment/Anaerobic Digestion (APAD) Technology for Increased Conversion of Sewage Sludge to Bio-Natural Gas in Small-Scale Wastewater Plants of Less Than Five Dry Ton Sewage Sludge/Day
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Multi-Input, Multi-Output Biorefineries to Reduce Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions
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Agent-based Modeling for the Multi-objective Optimization of Energy Production Pathways READ MORE
MSU RESEARCHERS PART OF $2.7 MILLION PROJECT (Michigan State University)
DOE awards $75 million to 35 bioenergy R&D projects (Ethanol Producer Magazine)
$2.3 million DOE grant to advance ethanol fuel research (Purdue University/EurekAlert!)
Machine learning speeds up the development of biofuel production process (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
