Five projects from the states of California, Washington, Maryland and Texas in the US will receive $10m funding from the energy department to advance technologies to convert biomass into advanced bio-fuels and bio-products.
The funding will be made under the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy and includes the collaborative efforts of universities, national laboratories and private industry players.
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J Craig Venter Institute in Maryland was awarded up to $1.2m while Novozymes in California will receive $2.5m with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington to secure $2.4m.
The Texas AgriLife Research and a collaborative effort between Lygosin and San Francisco-based TeselaGen Biotech will receive $2.4m $1.8m respectively.
Two of the projects will seek to develop affordable methods to generate intermediates from the deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass while three others will offer new conversion techniques to transform biomass intermediates into advanced biofuels and bioproducts.
The projects use novel synthetic biological and chemical techniques for the conversion of biomass into processable sugars and drop-in biofuels for the automobiles and aircrafts.
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By GlobalDataFunding for the projects support Energy Department’s objective of expanding the bio-fuels portfolio with focus on developing cost-effective, scalable and sustainable advanced biofuels through research, development and demonstration initiatives.
