18: Biofuels and Biorefinery Economics & Commercialization

Thursday, May 3, 2012: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Rhythms Ballroom, 2nd fl (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair:
Nitin Kolhapure
1:00 PM
Restarting the Chinese biobutanol industry
E. Timothy Davies, Rosa Dominguez, Renia Gemmell and Carl-Axel Lalander, Green Biologics, Abingdon, United Kingdom
1:30 PM
Techno-economic analysis of combined bioethanol and biogas production from hemp
Zsolt Barta1, Emma Kreuger2, Bálint Sipos1, Kati Réczey1, Lovisa Björnsson2, Ola Wallberg3 and Guido Zacchi3, (1)Department of Applied Biotechnology and Food Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, (2)Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, (3)Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
2:00 PM
Potential configurations of a cellulosic biofuel system - global warming and economic perspectives
Seungdo Kim and Dale E. Bruce, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center & Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2:30 PM
Break, Napoleon Foyer, 3rd fl
3:30 PM
KL Energy: industrial scale conversion of biomass to sugars and ethanol
Keith Flanegan, Ryan Zebroski, Lisette Tenlep, Ty Kennedy, Devon Burke, Jim Schultze and Peter Gross, KL Energy Corporation, Rapid City, SD
4:00 PM
Production of the sustainable renewable biofuels farnesane from US domestic sweet sorghum
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
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