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NREL and Petrobras to Collaborate on Advanced Biofuels Research
21 November 2008
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) have signed an agreement that could accelerate the development and international commercialization of advanced, second-generation biofuels. The announcement was made at the International Biofuels Conference in São Paulo, Brazil.
Petrobras and NREL have common interests in the development of next-generation biofuels technologies through biochemical and thermochemical routes from biomass. NREL conducts R&D related to techno-economic, environmental and sustainability evaluation of advanced biofuels in support of the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and other partners.
Petrobras’ research and development center (CENPES) conducts research on bagasse to ethanol, vegetable oil conversion to diesel oil components (H-Bio) and production of biomass-derived petroleum-like fuels using thermochemical technologies.
The agreement identifies four major areas of advanced biofuels research collaboration: biochemical production processes; thermochemical processes; economic and sustainability analysis from lignocellulosic biomass; and evaluation of intermediate blends of ethanol and gasoline.
Objectives of the collaborative research are to:
Improve biomass compositional analysis and biochemical conversion performance measurement quality control and assessment methods that will lead to more efficient biochemical synthesis.
Advance biomass pyrolysis oil production, characterization and upgrading processes for production of diesel and jet fuel.
Expand and enhance integrated models for techno-economic evaluation of advanced biofuels systems with attention to environmental and sustainability considerations.
Share data and information on the evaluation of intermediate blends.
The NREL/Petrobras agreement will help achieve the goals of the United States and Brazil memorandum of understanding to advance cooperation on biofuels signed by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brazil Foreign Minister Celso Amorim on 9 March 2007.
November 21, 2008 in Bio-hydrocarbons, Biomass, Brazil, Fuels | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by: Henry Gibson | November 21, 2008 at 08:45 PM
Only fools demand that bio-energy totally replace fossil fuels. Wise persons understand that bio-energy will progressively displace larger and larger amounts of fossil fuels, while other clean, abundant, and sustainable energy sources are being perfected.
Government bureaucratic idiots, college professors, and journalists typically demand a "one-size fits all" solution for every problem. Smart people learn to develop networked solutions of many types, to allow for inevitable expansion and contraction.
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