Abstract
An alternative fuels user facility and ethanol pilot plant has been designed to allow scaleup of biofuel technologies that show commercial promise in the laboratory. Dedicated recently at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., the unit will play a critical role in bringing homegrown transportation fuels produced from biomass to the US marketplace, according to an NREL spokesman. The pilot plant will apply recent genetic engineering breakthroughs at NREL that have yielded a new organism to process a wider range of biomass types than before. The biomass types include wood chips, wastepaper, trees and grass, municipal solid waste, and agricultural and forestry residues. One of the first customers is Amoco Corp., which will test the feasibility of using wastepaper as a feedstock to make ethanol.
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