Pyromaniax: Mississippi State’s SERC group, among 18 others, developing advanced biofuels from pyrolysis

Biofuels Digest
February 15, 2010

It was Julius Caesar who famously divided Gaul into three parts — he also said he’d rather be first in a village than second at Rome, and he didn’t like February very much, eventually stealing a day from February so that the month named after himself, July, could have 31 days.

All of this comes to mind while dusting snow off my jacket and listening to Bill Batchelor, who moved from the Rome of bioenergy, Iowa, to the comparative village of Starkville, Mississippi to help shape a group of scientists at Mississippi State University into the Sustainable Energy Research Center.

A major objective: an end-to-end system, based on fast pyrolysis, that would produce 1/3 renewable gasoline, 1/3 renewable diesel and 1/3 renewable jet fuel from Mississippi’s trees and waste forest biomass.

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