1. DOE Biomass Program Integrated Biorefinery
POET Project LIBERTY
March 19, 2009
DOE Biomass Program Integrated Biorefinery
Platform Peer Review
Open Session
James Sturdevant
POET, LLC
Presenters should spend less time on boilerplate project information and focus their presentations such that the key nuggets of progress and accomplishments are presented. This will assist reviewers in evaluating the value of the work. Reviewers should be encouraged to use the “additional slides” at the back end of the presentation to demonstrate work being done and how the dollars are being used. Use the “additional” slides to provide information on progress. Presentation guidance should direct presenters to spend the majority of their time on progress and accomplishments.
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2. Overview Timeline Budget Barriers Addressed Partners
Award 1, Cooperative Agreement
Start date – 10/01/07
End date – 3/31/10
Award 2, TIA
Start date – 10/01/08
End date – 9/30/14
Award 1, Cooperative Agreement
$9.6M Tot. Award Budget
Award 2, TIA
$193.8M Tot. Est. Cost
Total DOE Cost Share:
40% up to $80M
The purpose of this slide is to provide some context for evaluating your project and especially your accomplishments.
The information in the left column describes the magnitude and timing of the investment in your project. The information in the right column describes the players and the issues that are to be overcome.
For projects that include multiple partners, please discuss the roles of each and how the overall project is being managed.
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Barriers Addressed
Partners
End-to-end process integration
Commercial-scale demonstration facilities
Risk of pioneer technologies
NREL
Novozymes
Numerous equipment companies and others

3. Project Goals and Objectives
A commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery.
Objectives:
Integrate cellulosic ethanol technologies with existing corn-based, dry mill ethanol technologies
Implement a sustainable biomass feedstock collection, storage, and delivery system
Maximize alternative energy production and minimize traditional energy usage
Enable replication at other existing or new biorefineries
Purpose: The objectives should describe what you are trying to do, both over the life of the project and since the last review.
Relevance to the Biomass Program includes contribution to achievement of specific targets and milestones as outlined in the MYPP and identified relevance to pathway(s). Also include relevance to the industry and market place.

4. POET Biorefining – Emmetsburg Emmetsburg, Iowa
Purpose: The objectives should describe what you are trying to do, both over the life of the project and since the last review.
Relevance to the Biomass Program includes contribution to achievement of specific targets and milestones as outlined in the MYPP and identified relevance to pathway(s). Also include relevance to the industry and market place.

5. Project Goals and Objectives
Project LIBERTY supports the strategic goal of the DOE Integrated Biorefineries Platform:
To demonstrate and validate integrated technologies to achieve commercially acceptable performance and cost pro forma targets (DOE OBP MYPP, p. 3-68)
Project LIBERTY addresses demonstration and deployment of the DOE Integrated Biorefineries Agricultural Residue Processing Pathway
(DOE OBP MYPP, p. 3-71)
Purpose: The objectives should describe what you are trying to do, both over the life of the project and since the last review.
Relevance to the Biomass Program includes contribution to achievement of specific targets and milestones as outlined in the MYPP and identified relevance to pathway(s). Also include relevance to the industry and market place.

6. Two Agreements Cooperative Agreement Technology Investment Agreement
Preparation for construction
Risk Mitigation, environmental engineering, feedstock, preliminary engineering
Technology Investment Agreement
Construction and operational reporting
A plant capable of processing a minimum of 700 dry metric tonnes per day of lignocellulose to produce ethanol product
Make a commercially-reasonable decision whether LIBERTY will replicate
Purpose: The objectives should describe what you are trying to do, both over the life of the project and since the last review.
Relevance to the Biomass Program includes contribution to achievement of specific targets and milestones as outlined in the MYPP and identified relevance to pathway(s). Also include relevance to the industry and market place.

7. Technical Progress Environmental Engineering
Key Milestone: A Positive NEPA Determination
Completed documents:
Baseline Report
Proposed Action Report
Scoping Letter
Environmental Assessment
Mitigation Action Plan
Describe the technical barriers which they help to overcome
Relate accomplishments to OBP MYPP goals and objectives
Summarize Key Milestones and Status
Include sufficient slides to explain what tasks were executed leading to the technical accomplishments
Include data and results
Technical Accomplishments
As this is a major part of the presentation, multiple slides will be required
Purpose: Describe the most important technical accomplishments and results obtained since the last review.
Whenever possible, describe the significance of the accomplishments by relating the results to the appropriate DOE targets and milestones from the MYPP. Lowering cost a is an important target.

8. Technical Progress (Cont’d)
Preliminary Engineering
To be based on results from pilot plant, POET Research Center, Scotland, SD
Operations began 11/08
Lab-scale process works at pilot scale
Making cellulosic ethanol
Material handling is complex
Focus is on reducing costs

9. Technical Progress Feedstock – Corn Cobs and Corn Fiber Requirements
700 bone dry metric tonnes per day
Cobs from 400, ,000 acres annually
% of corn acres within 35-mile radius of Emmetsburg
Corn Cob Approach
With original equipment manufacturers, determine methods and equipment for cob supply chain
Inform local producers
Evaluate agronomic impacts of corn cob harvesting
Describe the technical barriers which they help to overcome
Relate accomplishments to OBP MYPP goals and objectives
Summarize Key Milestones and Status
Include sufficient slides to explain what tasks were executed leading to the technical accomplishments
Include data and results
Technical Accomplishments
As this is a major part of the presentation, multiple slides will be required
Purpose: Describe the most important technical accomplishments and results obtained since the last review.
Whenever possible, describe the significance of the accomplishments by relating the results to the appropriate DOE targets and milestones from the MYPP. Lowering cost a is an important target.

10. Cob Supply Chain P O E T / I S U Farmer / OEM / POET Responsibility
Agronomics
Collection In-Field Transport, Storage & Logistics
P O E T R e s p o n s i b i l i t y
Pile Pick-Up & Transportation At-Plant Receiving & Storage Communication & Marketing

11. Collaborating Agriculture Equipment Manufacturers
Fantini

12. 2007 and 2008 Cob Harvests A total of nearly 13,000 acres
Iowa, South Dakota, and Texas
13 equipment manufacturers
Three cob harvest methods
Excellent farmer feedback
Economic data

13. Inform Local Producers
LIBERTY Field Day
November 6, 2008
LIBERTY Blastoff Meeting, March 13, 2008

15. Success Factors Profitability Sustainable Feedstock Supply
3. Financing
Technical
Market
Business
Needed for commercial viability

16. Challenges Technical Sustainable Feedstock Supply Financing Timeline
We are learning much from pilot plant
Sustainable Feedstock Supply
USDA BCAP and other incentives are required
Financing
Federal Loan Guarantee is required
Timeline
Explain the top 2-3 potential challenges (technical and non-technical) to be overcome for achieving successful project results
Describe the window of opportunity to develop this technology within: your company; the biorefinery industry; and the market

17. Future Work State Air & Water Permitting
Prepare commercial-scale enzymes (Novozymes)
Preliminary Engineering
Final Engineering
Financing Package
Purpose: Describe what will be done in the remainder of this year and in the coming year.

18. Future Work (Cont’d) Feedstock: Work to accelerate:
Equipment company “prototype-to-production” process
Farmer adoption
Conduct a pre-commercial cob harvest in 2009
Continue agronomics studies
Purpose: Describe what will be done in the remainder of this year and in the coming year.
Explain what it is you plan to do through the end of the project with emphasis on the next 14 months (through September 30, 2010)
Highlight upcoming key milestones
Address how you will deal with any decision points during that time and any remaining issues
Corn cobs represent over 5 billion gallons of ethanol

19. Annual Operations Reports
Timeline
Award 1 & 2 Overlap
Award 2 Construction
Award 2 Operations
Award 1
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
CA signed
NEPA FONSI
TIA signed
Construction begins
Operation begins
Annual Operations Reports
DOE selects LIBERTY

20. Summary Status: We are preparing for construction
DOE contracts in place, NEPA hurdle cleared, feedstock work underway, pilot plant operating, preliminary engineering beginning
Approach: We are confident in the LIBERTY model
Integrate the technology with an existing biorefinery, use a corn crop residue as feedstock, use an established network of grain suppliers
Relevance: There will be tremendous payoffs
With predicted increases in corn yields and over one billion tons of cellulosic biomass in the U.S.,* the possibilities for ethanol are staggering. If our nation has the resolve, we could almost eliminate our need for fossil fuels for automotive transportation and replace it with a homegrown, environmentally friendly, renewable fuel.
Summarize the key points you wish the audience and reviewers to take away from your presentation in the categories of:
Relevance
Approach
Technical accomplishments
Success factors and challenges
Technology transfer and future work
For projects presented at the 2007 Program Review, please provide a status of your current progress in reaching specific technical targets versus the status shown in 2007
* USDA/DOE