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18-06: Production of the sustainable renewable biofuels farnesane from US domestic sweet sorghum

Thursday, May 3, 2012: 4:00 PM
Rhythms Ballroom, 2nd fl (Sheraton New Orleans)
Jeremiah Kim1, Krystine Yu1, Joshua Leng1, Michael Santolini1, Jeremy Weisshar1, John Castle1, David Gray1, Suzanne Sato1, Thomas S Bass1, Walter Ramirez1, Glenn Dorin1, Ronald Henry1, Todd Pray1, Ross Eppler1, Eleonora Bellisimi1, Sam Harris2, Juan Pablo Rebolledo2, Alexandre Chapeaux3 and Patrick Poon1, (1)Pilot Plant, Amyris, Emeryville, CA, (2)Commercial Collaborations, Ceres Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, (3)National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
The presentation will cover production of the Amyris biofuel farnesane from domestic sweet sorghum syrup.  We will describe the pre- fermentation processing steps that provide the sterile fermentation feedstock and the overall process which involves fed batch fermentation, centrifugal separation, distillation and hydrogenation.  Lastly, feedstock and process factors influencing the economics of production will be reviewed.
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