Biomass Research and Development Act

In the United States, a strong motivation has developed in the past decade to reduce the nation s dependence on imported oil and to increase their own energy supplies by using a more diverse mix of domestic resources. A Presidential Order triggered a series of initiatives for the promotion of the use of renewable resources in 1999. The Biomass Research and Development Act in 2000 led to the establishment of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee, which issued the vision for bioenergy and biobased products in the United States and the roadmap for biomass technologies in the United States. ... 

For example, US Public Law 106-224 Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000 . Hatakeyama, H., Hayashi, E., and Haraguchi, T., 1977, Biodegradation of poly(3-methoxy-4-hydroxy styrene). Polymer 18 759-763. 

The agreement implemented by PEA, Policy Energy Act, followed by EISA, Energy Independence and Security Act, crave that it in 2022 to obtain about 36 billion gallons of ethanol per year, as well as the European Union seeks the use of 10% second-generation biofuels in transport in 2020 (Porzio et al., 2012). In this context, modeling studies indicates that a pilot plant would produce 40,000 t ethanol/year from 240,000 t biomass/year (Porzio et al., 2012). When the subject is biofuels, Brazil stands out as the protagonist. There are more than 35 years of research and development of various... 

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) established 800milHon in funding to the DOE s Biomass Program for biofuel research, development, and demonstration projeas. 

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