DOE Awards FDC Enterprises $4.9M for Cellulosic Ethanol Feedstock Delivery System Development

Reuters
Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:06pm EDT

LANDOVER, Md., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
recently announced that FDC Enterprises of Columbus, Ohio, was one of five
winners to share in a $21 million grant to develop supply systems to handle
and deliver feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production.

Cellulosic biofuels can be derived from a diverse number of feedstocks
including switchgrass, woodchips, and agricultural residues. All of these
materials contain the sugars needed to produce ethanol by fermentation, but
they are more difficult to process than sugar cane, corn and milo, which are
in wide use today. The key advantage of cellulosic ethanol is that it will be
made from sustainable, renewable resources not currently consumed for food.

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