Bioenergy Australia 2016 Jim Spaeth...Company Location Feedstock Capacity Groundbreaking Off-Take Agreements Gulf Coast Fats and Greases 82.0 MM g/yr TBD TBD McCarran, NV MSW 10.0

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BIOENERGY TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE

Bioenergy Australia 2016

Jim Spaeth Program Manager

Bioenergy Technologies Office

U.S. Department of Energy


Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)

Vision

Mission

*Mature modeled price at pilot scale.

A thriving and sustainable bioeconomy fueled by innovative technologies

Developing and demonstrating transformative and revolutionary bioenergy technologies for a sustainable nation


Advanced Algal Systems R&D • Algal Feedstocks • Logistics • Conversion Interface

Strategic Communications • Public Awareness and

Support of Office Goals • New Communications

Vehicles and Outlets • Benefits of Bioenergy/Bioproducts

Bioenergy Technologies Office

Research, Development, Demonstration, & Market Transformation

Feedstock Supply & Logistics R&D • Terrestrial Feedstocks • Supply, Production, & Logistics

Conversion R&D • Deconstruction & Fractionation • Synthesis & Upgrading

Demonstration & Market Transformation • Integrated

Biorefineries • Biofuels

Distribution Infrastructure

Sustainability • Sustainability

Analysis and Communication • Sustainable

System Design

Strategic Analysis • Technology and

Resource Assessment

• Market and Impact Analysis

• Model Development and Data Compilation

Crosscutting

Program Portfolio Management

• Planning • Systems-Level Analysis • Performance Validation and Assessment • Multi-Year Program Plan • Peer Reviews • Merit Reviews • Quarterly Portfolio Review

• Competitive Awards • Non-competitive National Lab Awards • Lab Capabilities Matrix


Bioenergy Technologies Office Funding

23,233 6,776

16,500 22,000

29,155

24,201

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108,830

92,738

85,500

140,900

47,352

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Strategic Analysis andCross-cutting Sustainability

Demonstration and MarketTransformation

Conversion Technologies

Advanced Algal Systems

Feedstock Supply Logistics


Multi Year Program Plan (MYPP)

• Articulates BETO’s mission and goals to internal and external stakeholders

• Serves as an operational guide

• 5-10 year planning horizon (2022 goals and beyond)


Conventional Feedstock Handling System

Establishment

Mow / Windrow

Baling

Roadsiding

Load for Transport Unload to Storage

Bale Yard Storage

Recover Storage

Load Into Process Line

Transport


Advanced Feedstock Handling System

Load Directly Onto Process Line

Transport Self Loading Trailer (SLT)

Removes loading & unloading operations; load/unload times down to ~5 minutes

Single Pass Harvesting Freeman 1592D Self-Propelled Removes 1 pass through the field

Roadsiding Bale Picking Truck BPT)

Reduces # trips in the field by 67%

Bale Yard Storage

Direct transfer from BPT to SLT can eliminate field-side storage & retrieval operations.

Establishment Establishment


High Throughput Lab Screening o High Productivity Strains o Traits for Resiliency o Nutrients Strategies

Lab Outdoor Miniponds

Representative of Commercial Scale o Strain Validation o Crop Protection Validation o Nutrient Delivery and Recycle o Environmental Responses o Pests Controls o Harvesting and Dewatering o Water Recycle Strategies

Field Trials

Preliminary Outdoor Testing o High Productivity Strains o Crop Protection Strategies o Nutrients o Environmental Responses o Pest Controls

Photos Courtesy Sapphire Energy and

Global Algae Innovations

Move Successes

Algae R&D Strategy

Move Successes

• Strategic Goal: Develop algae production and logistics technologies that could support the production of 5 billion gallons per year of sustainable, reliable, and affordable algae-based advanced biofuels by 2030.


2016 National Algal Biofuels Technology Review

• Comprehensive report on the state of the algal science


BETO Pillars – New Conversion R&D Initiatives

Feedstock-Conversion

Interface

Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy

(ChemCatBio)

Agile

BioFoundry (ABF)

Separations Collaboration

Co-Optimization of Fuels and

Engines

(Co-Optima)


Integrated Biorefinery Projects

De-risking of:

Technology

Construction

Operations

Finance

Feedstock Supply

Product Off take

Markets


Integrated Biorefinery Project Funding Profile


American Process Inc. (API)


Logos/EdeniQ

Logos/EdeniQ Pilot Plant


Myriant’s Bio-Succinic Acid Plant


POET-DSM: Project LIBERTY


Defense Production Act (DPA) Initiative

Interagency initiative to produce more than 100 million g/yr of advanced biofuels

Joint initiative of Deptartments of Defense, Agriculture and Energy to build commercial biorefineries to produce:

Company Location Feedstock Capacity Groundbreaking Off-Take Agreements

Gulf Coast Fats and Greases

82.0 MM g/yr TBD TBD

McCarran, NV

MSW 10.0 MM g/yr TBD

Lakeview, OR

Woody Biomass

12.0 MM g/yr TBD

• Drop-in fuels for military applications

• Domestic fuels from non-food biomass feedstocks

• Cost-competitive biofuels (w/o subsidies)


Integrated Biorefinery Solicitation

Pilot- and Demonstration-Scale Manufacturing of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biopower

• Up to $90 million for design, construction, and operation

Topic Areas: 1. Pilot-scale biofuels from cellulosic, algal, or biogas feedstocks 2. Demonstration-scale biofuels from cellulosic, algal, or biogas 3. Biosolids or other allowable wet-waste feedstocks to biopower

or biofuels

Selection Announcements Are Expected for Late Fall 2017


2016 Billion-Ton Report

• 2016 Billion-Ton Report, volume 1 delivered at Bioenergy 2016

http://energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/downloads/2016-billion-ton-report-advancing-domestic-resources-thriving-bioeconomy





Federal Vision for a Billion Ton Bioeconomy


2017 DOE Bioenergy Peer Review Meeting

• 90% of projects in BETO’s portfolio will be presented to the public

• Systematically reviewed by external subject-matter experts from industry, academia, and federal agencies


Thank you

[email protected] www.doe.gov

mailto:[email protected]


ADDITIONAL SLIDES


DOE Funded Project Partners

BETO works with partners in industry, universities, and the national labs

Laboratories Universities

Industry


Sustainability Projects

Climate Change and Air Quality

Soil Quality Land Use and Productivity

Water Quantity

and Quality

Biological Diversity

• Efforts also include evaluating sustainability indicators across the bioenergy supply chain, contributing to global scientific dialogues on bioenergy sustainability, and engaging with international organizations to understand and promote more sustainable outcomes.

http://web.ornl.gov/sci/ees/cbes/factsheets/Indicators of Sustainable Bioenergy.pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcbb.12205/abstract

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcbb.12205/abstract

http://www.globalbioenergy.org/

http://www.globalbioenergy.org/


• Innovative approaches for bioproducts: – Molecular replacements for petroleum derived chemicals – Performance replacements for petroleum derived chemicals

• Infancy stage – play to the strength of the oxygenated polymers in biomass – Lignin and waste streams to value added products (X2 the cost of biofuels on a mass basis)

Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels

DOE’s Focus for Bioproducts for R&D


Feedstock Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC)

• Designed in FY16 and put in place in FY17, INL and NREL lead the consortium with BETO’s input

• Four teams focusing on analysis, demonstration, characterization and grading, and value-added preprocessing within the scope of the supply chain of feedstocks through conversion.

• Goal is to enable the bioeconomy by defining the physical and chemical characteristics of feedstocks that optimize conversion performance and process reliability.


Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines

This crosscutting project simultaneously tackles fuel and engine innovation to co-optimize performance of both elements.

• better fuels. better vehicles. sooner. Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines

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Agile BioFoundry

• The Agile BioFoundry will halve the time and cost and reduce the risk of bringing new, bio-derived chemicals to market by democratizing synthetic biology tools and knowledge.


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Bioprocessing Separations Consortium

Objective: Develop and transition cost-effective, high-performing separations technologies to market faster through coordinated research at the national laboratories that targets challenges relevant to industry and BETO’s priority pathways.

Technical Approach • Address challenges in biochemical, thermochemical, algal, and ionic-liquid based

separations • Cross-cutting analysis to inform R&D priorities • Advisory board with industrial and academic members


New Material Innovations for Clean Energy 2X Faster and 2X Cheaper

BETO/Energy Materials Network: ChemCatBio

Coordinated resource network with a suite of capabilities for

advanced materials R&D working to solve critical technical

bioenergy challenges


Waste-to-Energy Activities, FY 15-17: Workshop Stream

Informing FY 16-17 DOE Waste-to-Energy Roadmap

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Bioenergy Australia 2016 Jim Spaeth...Company Location Feedstock Capacity Groundbreaking Off-Take Agreements Gulf Coast Fats and Greases 82.0 MM g/yr TBD TBD McCarran, NV MSW 10.0