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Review of the Research Strategy for Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels (1999)

Chapter: Appendix C: Committee Meetings and Other Activities

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Committee Meetings and Other Activities." National Research Council. 1999. Review of the Research Strategy for Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9714.
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APPENDIX C Committee Meetings and Other Activities

1. Committee Meeting, December 17-18, 1998, Washington, D.C.

Program Overview

John Ferrell, Director, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fuels Development

Ethanol Production Technology R&D

David Glassner, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Biodiesel Overview

K. Shaine Tyson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Feedstock Development

Janet Cushman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Fuel Cycle Analysis and Greenhouse Gas Benefits

Michael Q. Wang, Argonne National Laboratory

Ethanol Market Issues, Analytical Approach and Results

Barry McNutt, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Policy and International Affairs

Roger LeGassie, TMS, Inc.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Biofuels Activities

Jim Craig, U.S. Department of Agriculture

2. Second Committee Meeting, February 11-13, 1999, Irvine, California

Opportunities and Technological Challenges of Bioethanol

Charles Wyman, BCI, Inc., and Dartmouth University

Cellulase Technologies

James Hettenhaus, Chief Executive Assistance, Inc.

Outlook for Bioethanol Development

Rus Miller, Arkenol, Inc.

California Perspective

Dean Simeroth, California Air Resources Board

Biomass Chemicals and Co-Production

William Hitz, Dupont Company

Feedstock Development Projects

Gerald Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Impact of Genetics/Genomics for Biomass Energy Crops

Toby Bradshaw, Washington State University

3. Third Committee Meeting, April 8-10, 1999, Washington, D.C.

Ethanol Development

Patrick Foody, Sr., and Brian Foody, Iogen Corporation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Committee Meetings and Other Activities." National Research Council. 1999. Review of the Research Strategy for Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9714.
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The Office of Fuels Development (OFD), a component of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Transportation Technologies, manages the federal government's effort to make biomass-based ethanol (bioethanol) and biodiesel a practical and affordable alternative to gasoline. Through the National Biomass Ethanol Program, the OFD is overseeing key research and development (R&D) and industry-government partnerships for the establishment of a cellulosic biomass ethanol industry. Cellulosic biomass resources being investigated include agronomic and forest crop residues, woody crops, perennial grasses, and municipal wastes. Starch-based sources, such as cereal grains (e.g., corn grain), are not included in this program. The objective of the program is to promote the commercialization of enzyme-based technologies to produce cost-competitive bioethanol for use as transportation fuel.

The OFD requested that the National Research Council estimate the contribution and evaluate the role of biofuels (biomass-derived ethanol and biodiesel) as transportation fuels in the domestic and international economies, evaluate OFD's biofuels strategy, and recommend changes in this strategy and the R&D goals and portfolio of the OFD in the near-term to midterm time frame (about 20 years). During this period, a number of complex, interacting factors, including advances in the technologies used to produce biofuels at a competitive cost, the elimination of tax incentives, advances in vehicle and engine technologies, growing concerns about solid waste disposal and air pollution, and global measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, will affect the position of biofuels in transportation fuel markets.

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