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Lecture " Production of Fuels and Chemicals from Lignocellulosic Biomass " Kenneth R. Hall Jack E. & Frances Brown Chair, Associate Director, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University System, College Station, Texas, USA, krhall@tamu.edu Abstract Use of biomass feedstocks for production of chemicals and fuels has become attractive because of new conversion technologies and the strategic situation for fossil fuels. The Texas A&M University System has a high-tonnage energy sorghum platform under development that can supply feedstock to biomass conversion technologies. These technologies can produce economical fuels and chemical feedstocks. Although other forms of biomass are also candidates for energy feedstocks, the new energy sorghum represents a preferred, but not exclusive, source for the new technologies. For this program, we propose to combine three technologies into a combined process to produce conventional transportation fuels and/or chemical feedstocks. Each of the technologies has patent protection and a significant development history. The process takes in biomass and through a series of operations converts it into a stream of mixed alcohols. The alcohols then pass into another part of the process in which the alcohols are converted into gasoline, jet fuel or diesel or into olefins for chemical feedstock. Because the products of this process are not ethanol, they can utilize the existing distribution system. In addition, the process uses non-food, non-feed biomass as feedstock.
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