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Oral Presentation 1-00 Biomass Conversion to
Ethanol: Overview of DOE Research and
Development
Gerson Santos-Leon, Valerie Sarisky-Reed Biofuels Program, Office of
Transportation Technologies U.S. Department of Energy E-mail:
gerson.santos-leon@ee.doe.gov
The
Biofuels Program in the DOE Office of Transportation Technologies is a
multidisciplinary bioenergy program dedicated to the development of
technologies for the conversion of biomass into usable sugars for the
production of ethanol and high value chemicals. The main areas of research are
feedstock production, core biorefinery R&D (e.g. pretreatment, enzyme
systems, advanced fermentation organisms), and systems integration. The program
conducts the R&D in collaboration with industry, academia, and national
laboratories.
An
overview of the Office of Fuels Development biomass conversion R&D
activities will be provided with special emphasis on our industrial partnership
plan for the development of enzyme systems, yeast strains for the fermentation
of biomass hydrolysates, and the demonstration of the sugars platform for the
production of fuels and chemicals. The OFD is presently funding two
multi-million dollar industrial partnerships for the development of enzyme systems
for biomass conversion. The sugars platform demonstration strategy is aimed at
the development of industrial partnerships to demonstrate an enzymatic
hydrolysis platform to enable the biorefinery of the future.
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