BIOFUELS RESEARCH: RACE TO THE PUMPS !!!
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Start:
Choose your feedstock
Pretreatments
Grow, harvest and collect
Prepare your feedstock
for conversion
Collect the
wastes
Farm
Wastes
Forest Mill Street
Cellulose
Degradation:
Cut your
molecules
Gas Filtration
Hydrogen or
Methane
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R&D
Biogas route
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R&D
Sugar-rush street
Fermentation
Produce
your ethanol
Alcohol route
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Take a card
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R&D
Flex-fuel
engine
Gasohol
FOSSIL FUEL
BLENDS
Where we
Are TODAY
BioDiesel + Diesel
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R&D
B2, B5, B20 blends
Oily Avenue
Oil
Road
Junction
R&D
Bio-Ethanol highway
Ethanol
purification
Ethanol + Gasoline
Biomass Residue &
Starch-grains Bridge
Extract
Extract the
the oil
oil
Mill
Mill and
and press
press
Fuel cell
technology
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Take a card
Extract
the cellulose
Mill and purify
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R&D
Prairie Road
Deep-fry Drive
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R&D
Filtration
Remove
the chunks
TransEsterification
Cut your
molecules
FINISH LINE
You have created a BIOFUEL that is
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Energy-efficient
Economically viable
Environmentally sustainable
Grown by USA Farmers
Ethanol Bridge
Cellulose road
junction
Cornell R&D
Take a card
Collect the used oil Cornell
Residual
oils
Anaerobic
Digestion
Feed the
microbes
Hydrolysis
Reach your consumers
Bio-Gas highway
Gas Bridge
Extract
the cellulose
Mill and purify
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R&D
Harvest season
Oil seed plants
(Soybean,
Canola)
Markets
Transformation and bio-conversion
Bull & Horse Blvd
Harvest season
Energy crops
(Switchgrass)
Industrial Production and Transport
Homogenization
Mix well
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R&D
The trees are
big enough!
Time to harvest
Trees &
Mill waste
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Farming and Recycling
Cornell
R&D
Ester road
Phase
Separation
Remove
the glycerin
Diesel route
Purification
Water
removal
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R&D
Bio-Diesel highway
Diesel
engine
WE ALL WIN