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Industrial Biotechnology:Securing a Sustainable Energy Future
Biotechnology Industry OrganizationIndustrial and Environmental SectionAmy EhlersApril 28, 2008
What is BIO?
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
Trade association based in Washington, D.C.
Over 1,100 member companies
Members in U.S. and 31 other countries
BIO
Health CareFoodand
Agriculture
Industrialand
Environmental
What is Industrial Biotechnology?
Application of life sciences to traditional manufacturing and chemical synthesis
Using micro-organisms (bacteria, fungi) and enzymes (specialty proteins) to improve manufacturing processes
Make new “biobased” products and materials (including fuels) from renewable feedstocks
Some Industrial and Environmental Section Members
BIO Breadth of Technology
Technology Providers
Diversa, Dyadic, Novozymes, Genencor, Codexis
Agriculture/Food Industry
Cargill, Tate & Lyle, Bunge, Ceres, Mendel
Chemicals Industry
DuPont, Dow, DSM, Rohm & Haas, BASF
Biomaterials/Bioplastics Industry
NatureWorks, Metabolix
Biofuels Industry
Abengoa Bioenergy, Blue Sun Biodiesel, Poet, Verenium, Sun Opta, Iogen, BP, Chevron
Advanced biofuels
DuPont, LS9, Amyris, Gevo
Biofuels
Transforming the transportation fuels industry
Biotechnology is a Key Enabling Technology
Industrial biotech is enabling a biofuels revolution that involves processing new feedstocks for fuel production that will move use beyond conventional corn ethanol production
Ag biotech is improving existing crops and developing new dedicated energy crops as biorefinery feedstocks
Farm Legislation
House and Senate both passed farm bill legislation in 2007, H.R. 2419Both versions contain an energy title with strong support for dedicated energy crops, advanced biofuels and biobased products Farm Bill conference announced for Monday PM - April 28
Senate Farm Bill (Food and Energy Security Act)
$1.25 cellulosic biofuels production tax incentive
“BioPreferred” program includes chemical intermediates
Bioenergy Crop Transition Assistance Program
$422M in grants and loan guarantees for pilot, demonstration, and commercial-scale biorefineries
$345M to help biorefineries purchase feedstocks for advanced biofuels production
Increases mandatory funding for Biomass R&D Program
House Farm Bill (Farm, Nutrition and Bioenergy Act)
Contains most of the key provisions in the Senate version –many at even higher funding levels – but does not include the cellulosic tax credits
Farm Legislation
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Increased Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS)Biofuels research and development
Increases funding for existing biomass R&D program (which includes DOE biorefinery demonstration grants) by 50% and extends through 2010Increases DOE Bioenergy Research Centers from 3 to 7
Biofuels infrastructureProvides renewable fuel pump installation grants and pilot projectsMandates a study of ethanol pipeline feasibility, another on the adequacy of rail network, and a third on distribution of advanced biofuels
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Cellulosic Biofuel Biomass-based Diesel Undifferentiated Advanced Biofuel
Advanced Biofuels
Funding
Biomass and Biorefinery Systems R&D Program (DOE EERE)Critical in drastically reducing the cost of cellulosic ethanol processing
Loan Guarantee Program for Cellulosic Ethanol (Title XVII of 2005 EPAct)
Facilitate the construction of facilities to produce fuel ethanol from cellulosic biomass
Genomes to Life (GTL) Bioethanol Research Program – Biological and Environmental Research Programs (Office of Science)GTL Bioenergy Research Centers – Biological and Environmental Research Programs (Office of Science)Grants for Production of Advanced Biofuels (Section 161 of EISA of 2007)
Geographic, Feedstock, and Technology Diversity
Major DOE Biofuels Project Locations
Future
What does the future of Industrial Biotechnology hold?
Beyond Ethanol: Longer Chain Alcohols and Hydrocarbons
Using microbes and rapid enzymatic pathway construction techniques to build new microorganisms that can of produce higher value compounds for use as transportation fuels
Amyris
Gasoline substitute - contains more energy than ethanol, lower cost, less polluting, and is fully compatible with infrastructure
LS9
“Domestic, sustainable, cost-effective, and compatible with existing systems; it's just what the Earth ordered”
Gevo
butanol, iso-butanol
But…
Bio-Based Economy
Eventually the industry will grow to provide multiple products from renewable feedstocks on one production site, building a biobased economy, instead of a petroleum-based economy
Economical and efficient
Rural Growth
Minimize infrastructure
Lower environmental impact
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