Perspective

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

  1. Lee R. Lynd1,*,
  2. Eric Larson2,
  3. Nathanael Greene3,
  4. Mark Laser4,
  5. John Sheehan5,
  6. Bruce E. Dale6,
  7. Samuel McLaughlin7,
  8. Michael Wang8

Article first published online: 4 MAR 2009

DOI: 10.1002/bbb.134

Issue

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Special Issue: The Role of Biomass in America's Energy Future

Volume 3, Issue 2, pages 113–123, March/April 2009

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How to Cite

Lynd, L. R., Larson, E., Greene, N., Laser, M., Sheehan, J., Dale, B. E., McLaughlin, S. and Wang, M. (2009), The role of biomass in America's energy future: framing the analysis. Biofuels, Bioprod. Bioref., 3: 113–123. doi: 10.1002/bbb.134

Author Information

  1. 1

    Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

  2. 2

    Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, NJ

  3. 3

    Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY

  4. 4

    Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

  5. 5

    SheehanBoyce, LLC, Littleton, CO

  6. 6

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

  7. 7

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

  8. 8

    Argonne National Laboratory, IL

*Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 4 MAR 2009
  2. Article first published online: 4 MAR 2009
  3. Manuscript Revised: 13 JAN 2009
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 13 JAN 2009
  5. Manuscript Received: 22 OCT 2008

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Keywords:

  • biomass;
  • biorefinery;
  • biofuels;
  • mature technology

Abstract

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. © 2009 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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