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DOE Will Provide Up To $200M in Funding for Small-Scale Biorefineries
1 May 2007
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide up to $200 million, over five years (FY’07-’11) to support the development of small-scale cellulosic biorefineries in the United States.
DOE is soliciting projects to develop biorefineries at 10% of commercial scale that produce liquid transportation fuels such as ethanol, as well as bio-based chemicals and bioproducts used in industrial applications. Small-scale projects will use novel approaches and a variety of cellulosic feedstocks to test new refining processes.
These projects complement DOE’s announcement earlier this year of up to $385 million over four years for the development of six full-scale biorefineries. (Earlier post.) The full-scale biorefineries focus on near-term commercial processes, while the small-scale facilities will experiment with new feedstocks and processing technologies. Combined, these small- and full-scale projects will receive up to $585 million in federal investment.
The new funding will support demonstration projects that test key refining processes and provide operational data needed to lower the technical hurdles sometimes associated with financing a full-size commercial plant. These projects are expected to be operational within three to four years and will speed the adoption of new technologies to produce ethanol and other biofuels from cellulosic feedstocks. Commercial-scale demonstrations would follow thereafter.
DOE requests applicants to design, construct and operate an integrated biorefinery demonstration facility, employing lignocellulosic feedstocks for the production of some combination of liquid transportation fuel(s), biobased chemicals, and substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks and products. DOE is seeking projects that can rapidly move to commercial-scale, supported by a sound business strategy and; encourages applications that demonstrate breakthrough technologies and collaboration between industry, universities, and DOE’s national laboratories.
Up to $15 million is expected to be available in FY’07, with the remaining $185 million expected to be available in FY’08-’11, subject to appropriation from Congress. DOE anticipates selecting 5-10 awards under this announcement. These projects require a minimum of 50 percent cost share from applicants.
Applications for this funding opportunity are due August 14, 2007.
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Posted by: Henrik | May 07, 2007 at 02:52 AM
There are developments in DME in China today:
DME is an LPG-like synthetic fuel can be produced through gasification of Biomass. The synthetic gas is then catalyzed to produce DME. A gas under normal pressure and temperature, DME can be compressed into a liquid and used as an alternative to diesel. Its low emissions make it relatively environmentally friendly. In fact, Shandong University completed Pilot plant in Jinan and will be sharing their experience at upcoming North Asia DME / Methanol conference in Beijing, 27-28 June 2007, St Regis Hotel. The conference covers key areas which include:
DME productivity can be much higher especially if
country energy policies makes an effort comparable to
that invested in increasing supply.
By:
National Development Reform Commission NDRC
Ministry of Energy for Mongolia
Production of DME/ Methanol through biomass
gasification could potentially be commercialized
By:
Shandong University completed Pilot plant in Jinan and
will be sharing their experience.
Advances in conversion technologies are readily
available and offer exciting potential of DME as a
chemical feedstock
By: Kogas, Lurgi and Haldor Topsoe
Available project finance supports the investments
that DME/ Methanol can play a large energy supply role
By: International Finance Corporation
For more information: www.iceorganiser.com
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Ep you are contradicting yourselves. First you report that “Current US ethanol distilleries require as much as 34,000 BTU of process heat per gallon of ethanol, but some have this down to 24,000 BTU/gallon.” And then you refer to thermodynamics to justify that it is impossible to make any improvements in the energy efficiency of ethanol production. You should be able to do better than that, engineer-poet.
I am not touting anything. You asked about my degree and I gave you a straight answer. You on the other hand, keep trying to ridicule and disgrace other educations. It is infantile on the level of “my dad is stronger than your dad”. Nothing good comes out of it and it is irrelevant for the discussion.
It would be useful if we could find more websites with detailed information about the energy required to produce the ethanol and the prices of the various types of energy forms involved. It is important to note that even if it took more energy to produce the energy in ethanol it would still be good business if the energy forms for input were significantly less pricy than ethanol.