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BIOMASS PROGRAM

IEA Bioenergy Task 42 Meeting Alicia Lindauer-Thompson [email protected]

Melissa Klembara [email protected]

Lille, France 3-4 March 2010


•  The Office of the Biomass Program is currently funding 29 biorefinery projects: –  At various scales (pilot, demonstration and small commercial). –  Using different types of conversion technology (biochemical,

thermochemical, hybrids) –  From a variety of feedstocks

•  agricultural residue, forest resources, energy crops, and algae –  To produce a suite of biofuels, bioproducts, and/or biopower

Potential Site Visits


Feedstock Conversion Intermediate Conversion Product Performer $M

Agricultural Residues

biochemical

gasification

pyrolysis oil

syngas

sugar

catalysis

fermentation ethanol

diesel

Abengoa, Poet, Pacific Ethanol, Verenium, ADM

Ineos

REII

$259M

$50M

$20M

Woody

biochemical

gasification

pyrolysis oil

syngas

sugar

catalysis

fermentation ethanol

gasoline diesel jet fuel

Lignol, Mascoma RSA, API ZeaChem

Range Fuels Blue Fire

Haldor Topsoe Clear Fuels New Page, Flambeau

$139M

$164M

$178M

Grasses biochemical sugar fermentation

ethanol

diesel

ICM, Logos

Amyris

$46M

$25M

GTI, UOP $28M

succinic acid BEI $50M

Integrated Biorefinery Project Breakdown by Feedstock


Feedstock Conversion Intermediate Conversion Product Performer $M

Algae

open pond

Closed bioreactor

oil

ethanol

diesel jet fuel

Sapphire

Solazyme

Algenol

$50M

$22M

$25M

catalysis diesel jet fuel

catalysis

oil transesterification biodiesel

metathesis diesel jet fuel

Elevance $3M

MSW gasification syngas catalysis ethanol Enerkem $50M

Integrated Biorefinery Project Breakdown by Feedstock


Match up Meeting Location to IEA Task 42 Interest


Proposal for Next IEA Bioenergy Task 42 Meeting

•  The US is a large land mass, so we have to narrow down what site(s) to visit and plan and meeting around those site visits.

•  Goal is to match the best location to IEA Task 42 interest

Proposed Option •  Location: Chicago, IL •  Date/Timeframe: September 2010 •  Would allow for potential site visits to:

–  Haldor Topsoe –  GTI –  ADM –  Argonne National Laboratory (focused on membrane technology

and life cycle analysis)

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Haldor Topsoe, Inc.

Funding Project Site Feedstock Technology Outputs Other Partners

DOE: $25,000,000

Des Plaines, Illinois

Wood Thermochemical - Carbona Gasification and Topsoe TIGAS Processes, (Syngas to Methanol/DME to Gasoline)

Green Gasoline

Carbona, ConocoPhillips, UPM – Kymmene Corporation, Gas Technology Institute (GTI)

Total: $34,701,468

Cost Share 28%

Synopsis: Haldor Topsoe’s proposal involves biomass gasification followed by tar reforming (both proprietary, GTI and Carbona), gas cleanup and conditioning, catalytic two-step syngas-to-gasoline (TIGAS, proprietary, claimed advantages over methanol to gasoline process), and gasoline separation. The technology’s main advantage over traditional Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is the minimal requirements for product upgrading. The front-end and back-end processes have been tested extensively over many years. The pilot plant would fully integrate and optimize.


Gas Technology Institute


DOE: $2,500,000

Des Plaines, Illinois

Wood Waste, Corn Stover, & Microalgae

Thermochemical – Pyrolysis, Hydropyrolysis & Hydroconversion

Green Gasoline & Diesel, Char

Johnson Timber Cargill, PetroSun, Blue Marble Energy, NREL, Michigan Tech U

Total: $3,125,000

Cost Share 20%

Synopsis: GTI has a novel process that produces gasoline and diesel from biomass through pyrolysis and syngas conversion. However, their project management plan includes one year of R&D prior to engineering design for pilot, which is outside schedule of fully obligating all Recovery Act. DOE plans to negotiate to fund through the preliminary design and engineering portion of their proposal, with the goal of proving out whether or not this technology can produce fuels at the favorable yields.


Archer Daniels Midland


DOE: $24,834,592

Decatur, Illinois

Corn Stover Hybrid - Pretreatment, Pelletizing, Fermentation, and Combustion

Ethanol, Ethyl Acrylate, Ethylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Electricity, & Fertilizer

None specified

Total: $35,781,201

Cost Share 31%

Synopsis: Process makes optimum use of biomass to produce highest value products by separating “cellulose pulp” from lignin and pelletizing the lignin at a separate location. The pelletized lignin and the “cellulose pulp” are then shipped to a central facility for further processing to ethanol and power, respectively. This is a unique approach that may solve a significant problem in the biofuels seasonal feedstock arena. This concept may increase the density of corn stover by a factor of three, making handling, transportation, storage, and processing more efficient. Ethylene glycol and propylene glycol byproducts enhance biorefinery economics and will be marketed with ADM’s existing polyols business.


Proposed Agenda

September 13 – Monday evening arrival in Chicago September 14 – Tuesday review of US Biomass Program

and briefing on Integrated Biorefinery related projects. –  Potential to have some project partners, whose site we wont be

able to visit due to logistical constrains, to attend and explain their projects (such as Algae).

–  Potential for afternoon site visits to GTI and/or Haldor Topsoe near Chicago.

September 15 – Task 42 Meeting September 16 – Potential site visit to ADM


Backup Slides


Performer Location DOE Award*

Feedstock Type

Conversion Technology

Fuel / Capacity**

Status

Bluefire Fulton, MS $87.6M

Wood Wood Waste Sorted MSW

Biochemical-Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis

19M gals ethanol/yr

Phase 1 Award for engineering design and environmental permitting.

Poet Emmetsburg, IA $100M Corn Cob Biochemical 25M gals

ethanol/yr

Phase 2 TIA Award issued, engineering and construction in progress.

Range Fuels Soperton, GA $76.2M Wood Waste

Gasification + Mixed Alcohol synthesis

20M gals per yr mixed alcohols

Phase 2 TIA Award issued, engineering and construction in progress.

Abengoa Hugoton, KS $100M Agricultural Residues Biochemical 11.4M gals

ethanol/yr

Phase 1 Award for engineering design and environmental permitting NEPA EIS process initiated.

*Award amounts still under negotiation. **Fuel capacities are based on performers estimates. Co-gen of steam/heat and power not included.

EPACT Section 932 “Commercial-Scale” Biorefineries


Performers Location DOE Award* Feedstock Type

Conversion Technology

Fuel / Amount Status

Alltech Envirofine

Washington County, KY $30M Corn Cobs Biochemical-Solid State

Fermentation 1M gals ethanol/yr Applicant withdrew

Lignol Innovations

Grand Junction, CO

$30M Woody Biomass Biochemical-Organisolve 2.5M gals ethanol/yr


Mascoma Upper Peninsula, MI

$32M Woody Biomass Biochemical 5M gals

ethanol/yr


NewPage Wisconsin Rapids, WI

Up to $50M Woody Biomass Thermochemical-Fischer-

Tropsch 5.5M gals FT Liquids/yr


Pacific Ethanol

Boardman, OR $30M Wheat Straw, Stover,

Poplar Residuals Biochemical-Biogasol 2.7M gals ethanol/yr


RSA Old Town, ME

$33.9M Hemicellulose from Wood

Biochemical-Pentose Extraction

2.2M gals of Ethanol or Butanol

Phase 1 Award for engineering design and environmental permitting under negotiation.

Verenium Biofuels Corp.

Jennings, LA

$14.9M Energy Cane and Sugar Cane Bagasse

Biochemical Process 1.5M gals ethanol/yr


Flambeau River Biofuels LLC

Park Falls, WI

up to $80M

Forest Residues and Wood Waste

Thermochemical to Fischer-Tropsch

9M gals FT Liquids/yr and 50M lbs of FT wax


Demonstration-Scale Biorefineries Selected in FY2008

*Award amounts still under negotiation.


State City Company Feedstocks Conversion Technology Capacity Outputs

DOE Grant (M USD)

Cost Share (M USD) Scale

Texas Freeport Algenol Biofuels Inc. CO2 Algae 100,000 gallons per year

Ethanol $25 $34 Pilot

Michigan Alpena American Process Inc. Wood N/A

890,000 gallons per year

Ethanol $18 $10 Pilot

Illinois Decatur Archer Daniels Midland N/A acid N/A ethanol $25 $11 Pilot

Colorado Commerce City

ClearFuels Technology Wood thermochemi

cal N/A renewable diesel and jet fuel

$23 $13 Pilot

Illinois Des Plaines Gas Technology Institute Wood N/A none

renewable gasoline and diesel

$3 $1 Pilot

Illinois Des Plaines Haldor Topsoe Inc. Wood gasification 21 tons of feedstock per day

renewable gasoline $25 $10 Pilot

Missouri St. Joseph ICM Inc. Switchgrass and energy sorghum

biochemical N/A Ethanol $25 $6 Pilot

California Visalia Logos Technologies Switchgrass and wood biochemical N/A Ethanol $20 $5 Pilot

Ohio Toledo Renewable Energy Institute International

Agriculture and forestry residue

pyrolysis 25 tons of feedstock per day

renewable diesel $20 $5 Pilot

Recovery Act Integrated Biorefinery Projects


State City Company Feedstocks Conversion Technology Capacity Outputs

DOE Grant (M USD)

Cost Share (M USD) Scale

Hawaii Kapolei UOP LLC

Agriculture residues, woody biomass, energy crops, and algae

thermochemical N/A

renewable diesel, gasoline, and jet

$25 $7 Pilot

Oregon Boardman ZeaChem Inc. Hybrid poplar hybrid N/A ethanol $25 $48 Pilot

Iowa Newton Elevance Renewable Sciences

Plant oil and poultry fat N/A none renwable jet

fuel and diesel $3 $0 Pilot

Mississippi Pontotoc Enerkem Woody biomass, sorted MSW gasification N/A ethanol $50 $91 Demonstration

Florida Vero Beach INEOS New Planet Bioenergy LLC

Agricultural and forestry residues

gasification and fermentation

8,000,000 gallons year

ethanol $50 $50 Demonstration

New Mexico Columbus Sapphire Energy Inc. CO2 Algae N/A

renewable gasoline and diesel

$50 $85 Demonstration

Louisiana Lake Providence

BioEnergy International Sorghum biochemical N/A succinic acid $50 $90 Demonstration

California Emeryville Amyris Biotechnologies Inc.

Sweet sorghum biochemical N/A diesel substitute $25 $11 Pilot

Pennsylvania Riverside Solazyme Inc. Sugar Algae N/A renewable diesel $22 $4 Pilot

Recovery Act Integrated Biorefinery Projects

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