Working Groups: Developing a Prairie Biorefinery Working Group

The objectives of this research project are: (1) develop prairie cord grass as a biomass feedstock; (2) develop pretreatment strategies to biochemically convert cord grass into a biofuel; (3) conduct thermo-economic and environomic analyses of thermochemically converting cord grass into a biofuel; (4) secured grass samples and initiated breeding program. devised model for gas composition and resulting gas temperatures; (5) model can use air, oxygen or stem as gasifying agent; and (6) tested cord grass and switch grass for biochemical pretreatment and conversion and began characterizing the germplasm.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Advanced Research, Biobased Research

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  Office of Research, Development, and Technology
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC    20590
• Project Managers:

  Johnson, Shawn

• Performing Organizations:

  South Dakota State University, Brookings

  Box 2201, AD 130
  Brookings, SD  United States  57007
• Start Date: 20120510
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 31341

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Biochemistry; Biomass fuels; Grasses; Grasslands
• Uncontrolled Terms: Biorefineries; Conversion factors; Feedstocks
• Subject Areas: Energy; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01467561
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RiP, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:35PM