Biofuels

This group will pursue innovations for creating the next-generation biorefinery, which uses biomass as feedstock for the sustainable manufacture of biofuels and an array of valuable building block and platform chemicals, such that profitability is maximized without adverse effect to the environment. Several companies, including major energy and technology development companies from the consortium of 15 industry partners of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, will be part of this focus group.

Biofuels Topics:

• Biomass Conversion
• Catalysis
• Bioreaction and enzymatic technologies
• Biorefining and other technologies for biomass conversion
• Novel seperations - solvents / intensification techniques
• Integrated Processing