Biofuels technologies

Second-generation biofuel technologies make use of a much wider range of biomass feedstock (e.g., forest residues, biomass waste, wood, woodchips, grasses and short rotation crops, etc.) for the production of ethanol biofuels based on the fermentation of lignocellulosic material, while other routes include thermo-chemical processes such as biomass gasification followed by a transformation from gas to liquid (e.g., synthesis) to obtain synthetic fuels similar to diesel. The conversion processes for these routes have been available for decades, but none of them have yet reached a high scale commercial level. 

The most promising second-generation biofuel technology - ligno-cellulosic processing - is already well advanced. In Europe, for example, three pilot plants have been established, in Sweden, Spain and Denmark. Other technologies to convert biomass into liquid biofuels (BtL) include Fischer-Tropsch biodiesel and bio-DME (dimethyl ether). Demonstration plants are in operation in Germany and Sweden. 

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Brazil is the leader in biofuel technology. "Flex-fuel cars" that can also run on biofuels comprise 70% of the new cars in Brazil. In other regions of the world, such as in Hawaii, large (28 million gal/yr) biofuel plants are being built. 

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Nitin Kolhapure Biofuels Technology Lead Industrial Biosciences DuPont Company... 

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