Biomass ’09 Technical Workshop addresses the road ahead for biomass

Biomass Magazine | July 2009
By Lisa Gibson
Posted July 14, 2009, at 3:55 p.m. CST

The pieces are all in place to make cellulose biomass a viable part of the U.S. energy security puzzle, according to Chris Zygarlicke, deputy associate director for research at the Energy & Environmental Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D. He spoke about the current state of biomass and where it’s headed at EERC’s Biomass ’09 Technical Workshop Tuesday afternoon.

Cellulosic biomass meets the carbon dioxide emission life-cycle targets, it’s sustainable, has growing incentives and support, has an established window for demonstration of viable technologies for production and conversion and is gathering significant business investment, he wrote in a presentation abstract. Success will depend on government policies, incentives, the development of sustainable biomass feedstocks and the proving of new conversion technologies in near-commercial-scale biorefineries and bioenergy systems, he added.

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