Biomass Program Overview

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• Biomass Program Overview
• Presentation to
• Biomass Technical Advisory CommitteeJim
  SpaethU.S. Department of Energy

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Presentation Overview

• TAC Matrix vs. MYTP
• Current RD Focus Areas
• Budgets

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TAC Roadmap vs. MYTP
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DOE-USDA Portfolio Review
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OBP Multi-year Technical Plan

• Comprehensive work breakdown structure
• Unprecedented scope and collaboration
• Merged 3 former Programs
• Biofuels,
• Biopower,
• Office of Industrial Technologies biomass
• Milestones, cost, schedule
• Every project is linked to Program goals,
  objectives and technical barriers
• MYTP pdf file can be viewed at
  http//devafdc.nrel.gov/biogeneral/Program_Review/
  MYTP.pdf

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Integrated Biorefinery - Options
USES Fuels Ethanol Renewable Diesel
Hydrogen Power Electricity Heat Chemicals
Plastics Solvents Chemical Intermediates
Phenolics Adhesives Furfural Fatty acids
Acetic Acid Carbon black Paints Dyes,
Pigments, and Ink Detergents Etc. Food and Feed
Hydrolysis
Sugars and Lignin
Acids, enzymes
Gasification
Synthesis Gas
Feedstock production,collection, handling
preparation
High heat, low oxygen
Bio-gas
Digestion
Bacteria
Pyrolysis
Bio-Oil
Catalysis, heat, pressure
Extraction
Carbon-Rich Chains
Mechanical, chemical
Plant Products
Separation
Mechanical, chemical
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Biomass Program RD Focus Remove Technical
Barriers
Advanced Biomass Process RD
Sugar Feedstocks Lignin Residues
Sugar Platform
Mixed Sugars
Biomass
Thermo-Chemical Platform
Syngas, Pyrolysis-oils
CO, H2, Bio-oils
Technology Validation and Systems Integration
The Integrated Biorefinery
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Work Breakdown StructureRemoving Barriers
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Example 2nd level WBS
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FY05 DOE Request by OBP MYTP Category
FY 2005 Request by DOE MYTP Category Feedstock
Infrastructure 2,000 Biochemical RD for
Sugars Platform 19,000 Thermochemical RD
Platform 24,000 Products Development 12,000 I
ntegration of Biorefinery Technologies 20,000 Tot
al 77,000
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Joint Solicitation Focus Areas

• Biomass RD Initiatives USDA/DOE Joint
  Solicitations
• FY02
• DOE awarded 6 and USDA awarded 2 sugar
  biorefinery development projects
• FY03
• DOE and USDA awarded 19 projects focused on
  processing and conversion
• FY04
• DOE focused on thermochemical outputs
• USDA focus on feedstock, products, forestry
  training, and incentives

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DOE Financial Status
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Integrated Biorefinery - Development
Integrated Industrial Biorefinery multiple
feedstocks fractionated to high value products
for economics fuels production drive scale
Fractionation of the feedstock to access the high
value products prior to ethanol production
Increase Ethanol production by access to residual
starch increased protein in Co-products
Fractionation of residues in dry mill for new
co-products from lignin
Use of residues in a dry mill to increase Ethanol
production
Existing Starch Based Biorefineries Wet Dry
Mills (Growth limited by co-product markets)
Fractionation of grain and residues introduction
of energy crops in dry mill
2010
2005
2020
Progression to the Integrated Industrial
Biorefinery
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Biomass Program -Industrial Linkages

• Current Linkages
• Pulp Paper Industry Forest Biorefinery
• Existing infrastructure for feed supply and
  products
• Economic and environmental benefits
• Industry seeking value-added fuels/chemicals
• Reduces fossil fuel consumption for energy and
  fuels/chemicals
• Utilities - Gasification co-firing/co-fueling
• Biomass Co-firing Program is concluding all
  on-going projects
• Technically proven as successful
• Useful information developed so that biomass
  co-firing can be implemented in utility scale
  boilers
• Not all participating utilities are still
  co-firing
• Availability and cost of biomass (coal is
  relatively cheap)
• Regulatory issues (new source review)
• General industry uncertainty
• Future Linkages
• Petroleum/Petrochemical Industries outreach
  underway
• Key Barrier
• Availability and cost of biomass
• Economic and environmental benefits

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OBP Mission

• The mission of Biomass Program is to partner
  with U.S. industry to foster research and
  development on advanced technologies that will
  transform our abundant biomass resources into
  clean, affordable, and domestically-produced
  biofuels, biopower and high-value products. The
  result will be improved economic development,
  expanded energy supply options, and increased
  energy security

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Program Goals
Develop biorefinery-related technologies to the
point that they are cost and performance
competitive and are used by the nations
transportation, energy, chemical, and power
industries to meet their market objectives
Intermediate Targets

• Syngas - from 6.14/GJ (2003 base case cost
  estimate) to 5.01/GJ by 2012.
• Sugar Feedstocks - from 0.14/lb (2003 base case
  cost estimate) to 0.10/lb by 2012.
• Industrial viability of three commodity scale
  products by 2010.
• 35 per dry ton for biomass feedstock 2010.