Second Generation Biofuels: Companies, Technologies and Market Prospects
Second Generation Biofuels: Companies, Technologies and Market Prospects
Author: Andrea MarandinoEdited by Danny Dicks
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Over the past few years, most of the alternative energy scenarios have nodded in the direction of biofuels as potential alternatives to petroleum as liquid fuels. The continued growth in the global extraction of petroleum – at a rate needed to maintain our lifestyles – is becoming increasingly unlikely. Energy demand will continue to grow, with the centre of gravity of global consumption shifting gradually to emerging economies, notably China and India. At the same time, global warming is increasingly perceived as a problem, discussed by experts and the general public alike. Biofuels could serve as a part replacement for petroleum in coming years.
However 'first-generation' bifuels are not without their problems - in particular expansion of agricultural capacity (meaning damage to rain forests and biodiversity, and loss of a natural carbon sink), and competition between food and biofuel crops (meaning higher food prices and potentially food shortages). So proponents are pinning a lot of hope on ‘second-generation biofuels’ produced from agricultural and forest residues and from non-food energy crops.
Authored by Andrea Marandino and Simon Sherrington, and edited by Danny Dicks, this Innovation Observatory report examines the technical and market challenges to the development of second-generation biofuels - in particular, ethanol derived from ligno-cellulosic feedstocks by both bio-chemical and thermo-chemical pathways. It evaluates the public policy agendas in the US and Europe that are pushing the cellulosic biofuel sector forward, and covers some of the challenges that remain to be overcome before wide-scale deployment is possible. These include: technical, economic and environmental issues; the complexity of impact analysis at this early stage of second generation biofuel development; scale and logistical challenges.
This report also looks at prospects for second-generation biofuel market development and projections for the date at which they will become commercial.
Finally, this report profiles some of the leading players worldwide, ranging from start-ups, funded by venture capital and corporate investors, to new divisions of established companies.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: Jaunary 2010
ISBN: 978 0 9562803 1 2
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0 Executive summary
1 Biofuel trouble
2 Cellulosic ethanol is high on policy agendas
1 Biofuel trouble
2 Cellulosic ethanol is high on policy agendas
- 2.1 Government support for cellulosic ethanol in the USA
- 2.2 Government policy affecting cellulosic ethanol in Europe
- 3.1 The biochemical pathway
- 3.2 The thermochemical pathway
- 4.1.1.1 Figure: Drivers and challenges of cellulosic ethanol market development
- 4.2 Technical, economic and environmental issues
- 4.3 The complexity of impact analysis, and politics
- 4.4 Scale and logistics challenges
- 4.5 Second generation biofuels in the future energy mix
- 4.5.1 Second generation biofuels forecast
- 4.5.1.1 Figure: Projected global production of 2nd generation biofuels, 2009 to 2015
- 5.1.1.1 Figure: Rate of progress towards commercialisation of selected companies
- 5.1.1.2 Table: Summary of key players’ technology approach, investors and partners
- 5.1.1.3 Table: Summary of key players’ feedstocks and stage of development
- 5.2 Companies developing enzymes
- 5.2.1 Novozymes
- 5.2.2 Dyadic
- 5.2.3 Genencor
- 5.3 Companies investing in cellulosic biofuel
- 5.3.1 POET
- 5.3.2 Abengoa Bioenergy
- 5.3.3 Iogen Energy Corporation
- 5.3.4 DuPont Danisco
- 5.3.5 Verenium
- 5.3.6 Royal Nedalco
- 5.3.7 Coskata
- 5.3.8 Virent Energy Systems
- 5.3.9 Range Fuels
- 5.3.10 Mascoma
- 5.3.11 ZeaChem
- 5.3.12 Bluefire Ethanol
- 5.3.13 Qteros
- 5.3.14 Fulcrum BioEnergy
- 5.3.15 SEKAB
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