Advanced Biofuels Technology: Build up of BioRefineries for Advanced Biofuels Production

Advanced Biofuels Technology Sponsored by DuPont Monday, April 30th , 2012 - 8:30am to 10:00am Biomass Saccharification Enzymes Reaching Cost Targets to Enable Commercial Biorefineries Build-up for Advanced Biofuels Production Moderator: Valerie... More

Advanced Biofuels Technology
Sponsored by DuPont
Monday, April 30th
, 2012 - 8:30am to 10:00am
Biomass Saccharification Enzymes Reaching Cost Targets to Enable Commercial Biorefineries
Build-up for Advanced Biofuels Production
Moderator: Valerie Sarisky-Reed, US Department of Energy
Manoj Kumar, DSM, NV
Sarah Teter, Novozymes, Inc
Brian Duff, US Department of Energy
Jim McMillan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Abstract
The U.
S.
Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awadred
financial assistance to four companies addressing research and development of enzyme systems to
hydrolyze and saccharify pretreated lignocellulosic biomass, meeting the goal of producing ethanol from
lignocellulosic biomass cost competitively by 2012.
By 2007, a number of advances had been made to
reduce the cost of these enzyme processes, but their use in process relevant conditions, at low cost
remains to be achieved.
In last four years, for the development of Less