Fuels and Chemicals Products: Integrated Biorefineries LCA & Sustainability Analyses

Tuesday, April 30, 2013: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Ballroom II, Ballroom Level
Convener:
Heather L. MacLean - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Co-Convener:
Sabrina Spatari - Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
• Life cycle assessment of renewable feedstock-based biorefineries. • Advances in understanding and measuring integrated biorefinery energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. • Analysis of biorefinery feedstock supply chain factors such as land availability, soil quality and water use.


1:00 PM
Cellulosic feedstock supply risks due to drought
Kimberley A. Mullins1, W. Michael Griffin2, H. Scott Matthews1 and Robert Anex3, (1)Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, (2)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, (3)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1:25 PM
Contribution of enzymes to life cycle greenhouse gas emission of lignocellulosic ethanol
Yan Hong, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Mohammad Pour Bafrani, Bradley A. Saville and Heather L. MacLean, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2:15 PM
Break
2:45 PM
Butanol production in sugarcane biorefineries: fermentative x catalytic routes
Marina Oliveira Souza Dias1, Adriano Pinto Mariano2, Tassia Lopes Junqueira1, Lucas G. Pereira1, Lucas G. Pavanello1, Mateus F. Chagas1, Otavio Cavalett1, Rubens Maciel Filho3 and Antonio Bonomi1, (1)Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol (CTBE), Campinas, Brazil, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas-SP, Brazil, (3)School of Chemical Engineering, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
3:10 PM
Mathematical Consistency and Validity in Indirect Land Use Change (iLUC): the Numbers Do Not Add Up
Seungdo Kim, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Bruce E. Dale, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, Reinout Heijungs, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands and Adisa Azapagic, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
3:35 PM
Design and environmental assessment of a biocatalytic process for the renewable polymer building block 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid integrated in a Brazilian sugarcane biorefinery
Zenaide Santos1, Mateus F. Chagas2, Luuk A.M. van der Wielen3, Harald J. Ruijssenaars3, Geert-Jan Witkamp1 and Antonio Bonomi2, (1)Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Laboratório Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia do Bioetanol (CTBE), Campinas, Brazil, (3)Bio-based Ecologically Balanced Sustainable Industrial Chemistry (BE-Basic), Delft, Netherlands
4:00 PM
Implications of the 2012 Drought on Feedstock Availability and the Developing Cellulosic Biofuels Industry
Norman Breuer1, Mark Downing2, Laurence Eaton2, Anthony King2, Matthew Langholtz2, Sujihkumar Surendran Nair2, Benjamin Preston2, Shahabaddine Sokhansanj2, Tim Theiss2, Anthony Turhollow2 and Erin Webb2, (1)University of Miami, Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, (2)Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
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