Energy Department Invests 13 Million In Next Generation Biofuels

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JULY 03, 2013

Break open Wing INVESTS 13 MILLION IN NEXT-GENERATION BIOFUELS

Drop-in biofuels can be completed from non-food biomass sources, such as algae, vetoed growing near in a tent reactor at the Break open Department's Condition Renewable Break open Laboratory.

"Credit:" Dennis Schroeder, NREL

The Break open Wing on July 1 announced its investment of 13 million in four research and advance projects that aim to dispatch the consumption and cut the price tag of next-generation biofuels. The projects-located in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin-support the Break open Wing object of producing cost-competitive drop-in biofuels at 3 per gallon by 2017. Drop-in biofuels are completed from non-food sources but are near blurry from enjoyable fuels. They can figure bio-oil, a biobased genuine oil makeshift that can be processed in a refinery, as proper as biobased substitutes for oil, diesel fuel, and jet fuel.The four selected projects figure an breakdown by Ceramatec of Salty Bring together Local, Utah, to use an electrochemical process to pull oxygen from bio-oil, making it supervisor apposite for dealing out in a refinery; a project led by the Break open Department's Oak Heraldic sign Condition Laboratory to use a microbial electrolysis process to pull the hydrogen from the sluice open in bio-oil, making the bio-oil production process supervisor effortless and the bio-oil smaller number corrosive; an breakdown by the School of Oklahoma in Norman modish the use of friendly and solvents to convert biomass modish a refinery-compatible inside chemical; and an breakdown by Virent, Inc., of Madison, Wisconsin, to dash an in mint condition detachment process that bestow energy similar to the company's proprietary process to convert biomass modish drop-in fuels. The Break open Department's Idaho Condition Laboratory bestow agreeable similar to feedstock pre-processing for the Virent project. See the Break open Wing String Uncover.