Country Progress Report

Australia

IEA Task 39 meeting

10th March, 2015

Dr Les A Edye

Head or R&D, Leaf Resources

Director, BioIndustry Partners

BioIndustry Partners

Recipient organisation Project title ARENA Funding Total project value

Muradel Advancing marine microalgae biofuel to commercialisation $4,398,000 $10,738,000

Bioenergy Australia Participation in the International Energy Agency’s Bioenergy program $360,000 $1,098,700

Biosystems Engineering Pty Ltd Woody biomass harvester $1,940,000 $3,481,069

James Cook University High energy algal fuels $5,000,000 $11,000,000

Licella Biomass to bio-Crude: Producing advanced drop-in fuels for Australia $5,423,155 $8,216,902

Muradel Advancing marine microalgae biofuel to commercialisation $4,398,000 $10,738,000

Renergi (Curtin University) A low emission biofuel technology $5,173,000 $12,891,182

Renergi (Curtin University) Advanced biomass gasification technology $3,624,253 $6,729,553

Visy Industries Australia Visy Clean Energy Project $2,114,820

$32,431,228

http://arena.gov.au/projects/bioenergy/

ARENA - Australian Renewable

Energy Agency

Dr Les A Edye

National Task Leader, IEA Bioenergy, Task 39 – liquid biofuels from biomass

Adjunct Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology

Director, BioIndustry Partners Pty Ltd

BioIndustry Partners

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Scientific literature Patents

Proposed program of work

• condense the existing report to preface the

update,

• research and report on recent activity of

authors of research publications in the

field and algal biofuels companies,

• review the technoeconomic analysis and

incorporate hydrotreating to green diesel

as an alternative to transesterification to

biodiesel (FAME),

• add commentary on the current state of

the art of photobioreactors, heterotrophic

algae and macro algae production

systems, and the likely contribution of

these to biofuels.

Proposed program of work,

cont. • review existing published documents on life cycle impacts of

algal biofuel and comment on the sustainability aspects of

land, fresh/salt water and N & P use,

• review algae as a feedstock for thermochemical processing

and status of commercialization of this approach,

• review algae as a feedstock for anaerobic digestion,

• review the use of algae residues from extraction of higher

value products as a feedstock for anaerobic digestion, and

• review markets and demand trends of algal products other

than energy products, place algal energy products within this

context and comment on the likely profitability of biorefinery

strategies that include energy products.

Collaborators

• Some proponents of algal biofuels and some skeptics, critical minds, access, interest

Project participant IEA BioE Task Country Affiliation

Les Edye Task 39 Australia BioIndustry Partners

Lieve Laurens Task 39 USA NREL

David Baxter Task 37 Netherlands EU Joint Research Centre - Institute for Energy

Dina Bacovsky Task 39 Austria Bioenergy2020+

Annette Cowie Task 38 Australia NSW Department of Primary Industries

Douglas C. Elliott Task 34 USA PNNL

Rene van Ree Task 42 The Netherlands Wageningen UR

Judit Sanquist Task 39 Norway SINTEF

Kyriakos Maniatis ExCo Greece EC - Directorate-General for Energy

David Chiaramonti Task 39 Italy Università degli Studi di Firenze

Cees Stagt Task 39 Netherlands DSM

Algal biofuels update

Algal biofuels update