NIFA Sustainable Bioenergy Portfolio

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1 NIFA Sustainable Bioenergy Portfolio Mark Poth, Ph.D. Sustainable Bioenergy Division Director Institute of Bioenergy, Climate and Environment National Institute of Food and Agriculture - USDA

2 National Institute of Food and Agriculture Sustainable Bioenergy Facilitate system-based approaches for development of sustainable supply chains for the production of biofuels, biopower, and bioproducts. >$100 M annual investment in 2012 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: $46 M Biomass Research and Development Initiative: $40 M Small Business Innovation Research: $4 M Non-competitive: ~$15 M

3 NIFA Sustainable Bioenergy Division Institute of Bioenergy, Climate, and Environment Sustainable Bioenergy Division Shared leadership Manage Programs as a Portfolio Stakeholder Input Collaboration within USDA and with external partners Growing America s Fuel Strategy Work back from targets to develop entire supply chains Build on existing infrastructure and previous investments Emphasize feedstock development, production, logistics as part of entire sustainable regional systems

4 USDA R&D Resources and Capacities NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge Coordinated Agricultural Projects (CAP) program Increased USDA extramural support for robust industry, academic, and government partnerships coordinated with USDA Biomass Research Centers (BRC) Expanded ARS and Forest Service (FS) intramural research through the regional BRC, based on directions given by the President s Interagency Working Group report Growing America s Fuel.

5 NIFA Bioenergy Portfolio Biomass Research and Development Initiative Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge Small Business Innovation Research Program Joint USDA/DOE Feedstock Genomics Program Biotechnology Risk Assessment Grants Other Activities Biodiesel Fuel Education Program Formula Funds Woody Biomass Utilization Group

6 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Regional Approaches to Bioenergy Systems Coordinated Agricultural Projects (CAP) Regional partnerships Academic, government, non-government, industry Integrate Research, Education, and Extension Robust sustainability analysis Economic, environmental, social Targeted Feedstocks (perennial grasses, energycane, sorghum, woody biomass, oil crops 5 awards totaling ~$136 M over 5 years

7 Institutions Included in Partnerships Recommended for Funding 23 States represented 28 Land-Grant Universities, including 5 minority-serving institutions Non Land-Grant Public Universities Private Non-Profit Federal Partners 20 Industrial Partners

8 AFRI Bioenergy CAP Funding by Institution-Type Land Grant University, 62.8% Public Non- Land Grant University, 8.9% Industry, 22.9% Non-Profit, 0.8% Federal, 5.8%

9 AFRI Bioenergy CAP Funding by Feedstock-Type Sorghum, 4% Energy Cane, 9% Perennial Grasses, 25% Woody Biomass, 62%

10 System for Advanced Biofuels Production from Woody Biomass In the Pacific Northwest PD: R Gustafson, U Washington, $40,000,000 (5 years) 27 Key Personnel from 5 Universities, a Community College Consortium, and 2 Industrial Partners from 5 States: Biogasoline, renewable aviation fuel Purpose-grown poplar Greenwood Resources Bioconversion and fuel production ZeaChem, Valero

11 Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA): New Vista for Green Fuels, Chemicals, and Products PD: N Lewis, WA St U, $40,000,000 (5 years) 41 Key Personnel representing 9 Universities, 3 Federal Partners, and 4 Industrial Partners from 9 States: Renewable aviation fuel, value-added industrial chemicals Woody biomass residues, purpose-grown trees Weyerhaeuser, Greenwood Resources Bioconversion and fuel production Gevo, Catchlight, Chevron

12 Agro-ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Biofuels Production Via the Pyrolysis-Biochar Platform PD: K Moore, IA St U, $25,000,000 (5 years) 19 Key Personnel from 7 Universities and 5 Federal Partners from 9 States: Biogasoline Switchgrass and other perennial grasses grown on marginal lands and as buffers separating traditional row crops from streams, river, and lakes. Logistics, pyrolysis and fuel production ADM, John Deere, Vermeer, Conoco-Phillips

13 A Regional Program for Production of Multiple Agricultural Feedstocks And Processing to Biofuels and Biobased Chemicals PD: V Kochergin, LA St U, $17,300,000 (5 years) 37 Total Key Personnel from 5 Universities, 1 Federal Partner, and 7 Industry Partners in 7 States: Biobutanol, gasoline, isoprene and other industrial chemicals Energy cane (ARS, SRU) and sweet sorghum (Ceres) Logistics (John Deere) Bioconversion to sugars, fuel and chemical production Virent, Genencor, Optinol, MS Processes, Intl.

14 Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems (IBSS) PD: T Rials, U Tennessee, $15,000,000 (5 years) 48 Total Key Personnel from 4 Universities, and 4 Industrial Partners located across 5 States in the Southeastern Region, California and Texas: Aviation fuel, biobutanol, diesel Woody biomass (southern pine), purpose-grown trees (Arborgen), and switchgrass (Ceres) Bioconversion (Dupont-Genera), thermochemical conversion (Rentech/ClearFuel, Kior)

15 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Sustainable Bioenergy Challenge (2012) Sustainable Bioenergy Research Policy Options for and Impacts on Regional Biofuel Production Systems: ~6 awards, $350 K for 2-4 years Impacts of Regional Bioenergy Feedstock Production Systems on Wildlife and Pollinators: ~5 awards, $500 K for 2-4 years Socioeconomic Impacts of Biofuels on Rural Communities: ~6 awards, $350 K for 2-4 years Environmental Implications of Direct and Indirect Land Use Change: ~ 5 awards, $500 K for 2-4 years Development and Sustainable Production of Regionally- Appropriate Biomass Feedstocks 1 award totaling $10 M over 5 years

16 Biomass Research and Development Initiative FY 2010 $28 M, FY 2011 $30 M, FY 2012 $40 M Feedstock Development, Conversion, Analysis FY 2011 solicitation required integrating 3 technical areas; emphasis on small scale processing; Life Cycle Analysis Approximately 250 Pre-applications for invited to submit full applications DOE administers the pre-application process USDA-NIFA administers the invited full application process

17 Biomass Research and Development Initiative Focus on advanced biofuels Interest in small scale processing Interest in rural-based processing and manufacturing Interest in biobased industrial products Funding range $3M - $7M Required integration of: feedstock development/production, feedstock logistics, feedstock conversion, product development system analysis, e.g. life cycle analysis, impacts on food/feed supply

18 Biomass Research and Development Initiative FY 2010 Awards Domtar Paper Company, LLC, Fort Mill, SC, $7,000,000. Demonstration plant using two technologies to convert low-value byproducts and wastes from paper mills into higher-value sugar, oil, and lignin products. U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, Mont., $5,309,320. Integrated approach to investigate biomass feedstock production, logistics, conversion, distribution and end use centered on using advanced conversion technologies at existing forest industry facilities. Cellana LLC, Kailua Kona, Hawaii, $5,521,173. Protein supplement from algae as a byproduct of algal biofuels production. Exelus, Inc., Livingston, N.J., $5,185,004. Develop energy crops with improved tolerance to drought and salt stress to enhance yields on marginal lands. Redesign process to make hydrocarbon fuels using new catalysts and chemistry that avoids the high temperatures and large energy inputs required by current processes.

19 Biomass Research and Development Initiative FY 2010 (continued) Metabolix, Inc., Cambridge, MA, $6,000,001. Enhance yield of biobased products, biopower, or fuels made from switchgrass. The project will use high temperature conversion to produce denser biomass and other products that can be further processed to make fuels such as butanol, chemicals such as propylene and other. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL., $5,430,439. Improve production and sustainability of sweet sorghum as an energy crop. Identify genetic traits in sorghum associated with drought tolerance through genetic mapping and select strains that produce high biomass yields and can be easily converted to fermentable sugars. University of Kansas Center for Research, Lawrence, KS, $5,635,858. Demonstrate a novel, sustainable technology at a pilot scale that produces diverse products, including advanced fuels, industrial chemicals and chemical intermediates. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, $6,932,786. Improve the economics for biorefineries by using on-farm processing to convert biomass to a mixture of butanol, ethanol, acetone and organic acids.

20 NIFA Bioenergy Points of Contact AFRI Sustainable Bioenergy - Bill Goldner, wgoldner@nifa.usda.gov, AFRI - Feedstock Genomics Ed Kaleikau, ekaleikau@nifa.usda.gov, BRDI Carmela Bailey, cbailey@nifa.usda.gov, WBUG Daniel Cassidy, dcassidy@nifa.usda.gov, SBIR Bill Goldner

21 NIFA Sustainable Bioenergy Team Mark Poth (Sustainable Bioenergy Division Director) Carmela Bailey (Conversion, Biobased Products, Sustainability) Daniel Cassidy (Woody Biomass, Education) Bill Goldner (Feedstock Genetic Development and Production) Fen Hunt (Economics, Rural Sociology, Education) Nancy Cavallaro (Carbon Sequestration, Soils, Environment) Jim Dobrowolski (Environment, Water, Rangelands) Tim Grosser (Education, Tribal Resources) Richard Hegg (Logistics), Brad Rein (Health and Safety) Ed Kaleikau (Genomics) Shing Kwok (Feedstock Genetic Development, Plant Biology) Mary Purcell-Miramontes (Feedstock Crop Protection) Peter Arbuckle (Industrial Ecology) Laurie Fortis (Bioinformatics)