The role of biomass in America's energy future: Framing the analysis

Lee R. Lynd; Eric Larson; Nathanael Greene; Mark Laser; John Sheehan; Bruce E. Dale; Samuel McLaughlin; Michael Wang

doi:10.1002/bbb.134

The role of biomass in America's energy future: Framing the analysis

Lee R. Lynd, Eric Larson, Nathanael Greene, Mark Laser, John Sheehan, Bruce E. Dale, Samuel McLaughlin, Michael Wang

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The Role of Biomass in America's Energy Future (RBAEF) project, initiated during the first half of 2003, has sought to identify and evaluate paths by which biomass can make a large contribution to energy services and determine means to accelerate biomass energy use. In addressing these issues, the study has focused on future, mature, technologies rather than today's technology. This perspective - the first of eight papers that comprise this issue - introduces the project, providing an operative definition of and method for estimating mature technology, a rationale for choosing the model feedstock, a list of the conversion technologies considered, and as a point of reference, a brief overview of the energy flows through a typical petroleum refinery. The subsequent papers are introduced as well.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	113-123
Number of pages	11
Journal	Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.134
State	Published - 2009

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Bioengineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Keywords

Biofuels
Biomass
Biorefinery
Mature technology

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