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21st Century Biomass Program Department of Energy Multi-Year Technical Plan Sugar and Thermochemical Platforms Biorefineries Fuels Chemicals Material Power Series on Renewable Energy Biofuels Bioenergy and Biobased Products Author: U.S. Government This is a reproduction of the U.S. Department of Energy Biomass Program Multi-Year Technical Plan issued in late 2004 by the DOE?s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), encompassing the biofuels and biopower program. The introduction states: "The Biomass Program is a comprehensive federally funded research, development, and...  more » deployment effort. It focuses on science and technology that will establish biomass as a significant source of sustainable fuels, heat, power, chemicals, and materials. Biomass is unique among all the options for renewable resources because it is the only single resource that by itself can serve as a sustainable supply of all of the following: food, fiber, heat, power, and carbon-based fuels and chemicals. The Biomass Program is managed by the Office of the Biomass Program (OBP), within the U.S. Department of Energy?s (DOE?s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). OBP is one of eleven offices responsible for the development of a portfolio of sustainable energy technologies. The overarching goals of the Biomass Program are to dramatically reduce or even end our dependence on foreign oil and to create a bioenergy industry in the United States. This multi-year technical plan (MYTP) documents the Biomass Program?s detailed strategies, plans, and activities over the next 5 years and beyond to achieve OBP?s goals. This MYTP is the first such multi-year planning document covering the entire Biomass Program. The true value of the MYTP is in the process used to develop the plan. Much of the information in the MYTP originated from a 3-day planning session in May 2003 and attended by representatives of OBP, five DOE National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and DOE?s Golden Field Office. The disciplined thinking that went into the MYTP helped OBP identify the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies being used. The Biomass Program represents a consolidation of several previously distinct and separately managed programs. What is now known as the Biomass Program includes what had been: The Biofuels Program (BFP); The Biopower Program (BPP); Biomass-related elements from research previously sponsored by the Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT). The BFP focused on research to produce liquid transportation fuels from biomass and was dominated by research on bioethanol (ethanol made from lignocellulosic biomass) with a modest amount of work on biodiesel (fatty acid esters, a renewable fuel substitute for petroleum diesel made from natural oils.) The BPP was focused on development of biomass gasification and combustion processes, including co-firing with coal, to produce heat and power. Research sponsored by OIT focused on development of value-added chemicals and materials from biomass. Biomass feedstock development activities, including research on production, harvesting, and assessment of biomass resources for energy use, were co-funded by BFP and BBD. The Biomass Program has five areas that fall into two categories: 1) core research and development (R&D) that emphasizes enabling technology for biorefineries and 2) integrated biorefinery development activities that pull together all the pieces of core technology for a specific commercial biorefinery scenario. As research moves from core R&D to integrated validation and demonstration of biorefinery technology, the lead in the work shifts from the public sector to the private sector. This organization of the work allows the Program to allocate its federal funding resources toward pre-commercial enabling technology development that can lay the groundwork for future commercialization without competing with or duplicating work in the private sector. The precommercial "core program R&D" falls into four main categories: Feedstock Interface core R&D; Sugar Platform core R&D; Thermochemical Platform core R&D; Products core R&D. The fifth area of work is Integrated Biorefineries, which consists of industry-led p  « less Post This Book Login | Register ISBN-13: 9781592484461 ISBN-10: 1592484468 Pages: 175 Rating: Currently 0/5 Stars.   ? 0 stars, based on 0 rating Publisher: Progressive Management Book Type: Ring-bound Members Wishing: 0 Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

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