Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts Our work makes a new bioeconomy work.

 Conversion of biomass resources into liquid fuels, electrical power, and other value-added chemical products  Systems approaches to problem solving  Agriculture  Forestry and Wildlife Sciences  Engineering  Regionally-appropriate feedstocks  Woody crops  Agricultural crops  Algae  Wastes and residues OUR WORK EMPHASIZES:

Research, Education, Outreach  Biomass feedstock logistics  Harvest and transport  Biomass processing  Thermochemical conversion of biomass to hydrocarbons  Gasification  Pyrolysis  Catalytic production of hydrocarbons  Biomass fractionation, biochemical conversion, and value-added product development OUR WORK EMPHASIZES:

LABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE  Feedstock characterization  Full capabilities for chemical and physical properties measurement  Biomass size reduction and densification  Biomass fractionation laboratory  Technology to separate biomass into basic chemical constituents  cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin

LABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE  Gasification and pyrolysis laboratories:  Bench-scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier  Bench-scale pyrolysis reactors  Pilot-scale bubbling fluidized bed gasifier  Pilot-scale downdraft mobile gasifier

LABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE  Liquid fuel laboratory:  Continuously Stirred Tank Reactors (CSTR)  Long term, unattended catalyst performance testing  Fixed-bed catalytic reactors

CURRENT FUNDING SOURCES  USDA – Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems ($15 million)  DOE – High Tonnage Harvest and Transport consortium ($10 million)  DOE – Liquid Fuels and Electrical Power ($1.25 million)  NSF IGERT  NSF REU  Several additional USDA and NSF grants  AAES – modest operations budget

EXPANSION AREAS  Life cycle assessment  Energy-water-climate nexus  Economic analysis  Genetics, genomics, metabolic engineering  Strengthening areas:  Intensive silvicultural production systems  Thermochemical and biochemical conversion