FEW: large crowd attends cellulosic integration discussion

Biorefining Magazine
By Kris Bevill June 28, 2011

More than 200 attendees of the 27th annual International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo (FEW) packed into the first cellulosic ethanol session of the event on June 28 to listen as industry experts discussed their views toward integrating cellulosic production at existing corn ethanol facilities. Seats filled quickly in advance of the presentations and as latecomers squeezed in along the walls, panel moderator Mark Penshorn, project manager for Science Applications International Corp.’s renewable energy group, began the session by pointing out that it will become impossible to plant enough corn to meet the U.S. federal government’s steadily increasing renewable fuel standard. “The obvious next step is cellulosic biofuel,” he said.

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