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POET Project LIBERTY. March 19, 2009 DOE Biomass Program Integrated Biorefinery Platform Peer Review Open Session James Sturdevant POET, LLC. This presentation does not contain any proprietary, confidential, or otherwise restricted information. Award 1, Cooperative Agreement - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
POET Project LIBERTYMarch 19, 2009
DOE Biomass Program Integrated BiorefineryPlatform Peer Review
Open Session
James SturdevantPOET, LLC
This presentation does not contain any proprietary, confidential, or otherwise restricted information
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Overview
Award 1, Cooperative Agreement• Start date – 10/01/07• End date – 3/31/10Award 2, TIA• Start date – 10/01/08• End date – 9/30/14
• End-to-end process integration• Commercial-scale
demonstration facilities• Risk of pioneer technologies
Award 1, Cooperative Agreement• $9.6M Tot. Award BudgetAward 2, TIA• $193.8M Tot. Est. Cost Total DOE Cost Share:• 40% up to $80M
Timeline Budget
Barriers Addressed• NREL• Novozymes• Numerous equipment
companies and others
Partners
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Project Goals and Objectives
Goal: 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
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POET Biorefining – EmmetsburgEmmetsburg, Iowa
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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)
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Two Agreements
1. Cooperative Agreement• Preparation for construction• Risk Mitigation, environmental engineering, feedstock,
preliminary engineering
2. 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
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Technical Progress
Environmental Engineering
• Key Milestone: A Positive NEPA Determination
• Completed documents:o Baseline Reporto Proposed Action Reporto Scoping Lettero Environmental Assessmento Mitigation Action Plan
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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
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Technical Progress
Feedstock – Corn Cobs and Corn Fiber
Requirements• 700 bone dry metric tonnes per day• Cobs from 400,000 - 500,000 acres annually• 34 - 42% 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
Farmer / OEM / POET Responsibility
P O E T R e s p o n s i b i l i t y
Collection In-Field Transport, Storage & Logistics
Pile Pick-Up & Transportation At-Plant Receiving & Storage Communication & Marketing
P O E T / I S U
Agronomics
Cob Supply Chain
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Collaborating Agriculture Equipment Manufacturers
Fantini
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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
Inform Local ProducersLIBERTY Field DayNovember 6, 2008
LIBERTY Blastoff Meeting, March 13, 2008
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Success Factors
1. Profitability
2. Sustainable Feedstock Supply
3. Financing
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Challenges 1. Technical
• We are learning much from pilot plant
2. Sustainable Feedstock Supply• USDA BCAP and other incentives are required
3. Financing• Federal Loan Guarantee is required
4. Timeline
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Future Work
• State Air & Water Permitting
• Prepare commercial-scale enzymes (Novozymes)
• Preliminary Engineering
• Final Engineering
• Financing Package
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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
Corn cobs represent over 5 billion gallons of ethanol
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Award 2 Construction
Award 1 & 2 OverlapAward 1
Operation begins
Award 2 Operations
Annual Operations Reports
Construction begins
NEPA FONSITIA signed
CA signed
DOE selects LIBERTY
Timeline
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SummaryStatus: 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 modelIntegrate 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 payoffsWith 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.* USDA/DOE