# Presentation: 667829

## <Project Name>DOE/USDA Biomass Feedstock Gate Review Meeting March <Date,14-16>, 2005

**<Presenter’s Name>**
**<Presenter’s Organization>**

**Note:  Each presentation is allotted 35 minutes; 20 min. for the presentation and 15 min. for reviewer Q&A.**

**Notes:**
My name is Sam Tagore.  I am from the Office of the Biomass Program and am responsible for Biomass Feedstock Interface Management Activity.

My presentation will cover the following:
O The feedstock work breakdown structure
O Our near and long-term goals
O Our near and long-term supply
O The barriers that we are trying to overcome
O The R&D Plan needed to reach our cost goals
O Our Roadmap Planning document
O Finally, our FY 04 budget request for the Biomass Feedstock Interface Activities

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## Presentation Outline

**Strategic Fit**
**Feedstock fit**
**Milestone fit**
**Stage gate fit**
**Technical Barriers Addressed **
**Customers**
**Technical Feasibility and Risks**
**Competitive Advantage**
**Project Overview**
**History and Accomplishments**
**Plan/Schedule**
**Legal/Regulatory Compliance**
**Critical Issues and Show-stoppers**
**Plans and Resources for Next Stage**
**Summary**

## Feedstock Fit

## Milestone Fit

**B Milestone**

- Ag. Residue & Energy Crop Feedstocks Available to a Biorefinery at $35/dry ton by 2015

- Collection/

- Harvesting

- Technology is

- Available

- Storage

- Technology is

- Available

- Transportation

- Technology is

- Available

- Preprocessing

- Technology is

- Available

**Feedstock Milestone**

**Hierarchy**

**Intermediate Targets ?**

- 2010: xx tons at $xx/ton

- 2015: xx tons at $xx/ton

- 2020: xx tons at $xx/ton

- Production

- Technology is

- Available

**C Milestone**

**By 2010 identify**

**sufficient, sustainable**

**ag. residue supply at**

- $10/dry ton grower
-  payment

**C Milestone**

**By 2009, develop and**

**demonstrate**

**innovative dry storage**

**methods so that**

**feedstock degradation**

**is less than 5%**

**providing a 50% cost**

**reduction compared to**

**current (2003) bale**

**based systems.**

- (

- $1.75/dry ton

- )

**C Milestone**

**By 2009, demonstrate**

**preprocessing**

**technologies that**

**produce ag. residue**

**resources with bulk**

**and flowability**

**properties similar to**

**other large solid**

**commodities so that it**

**can be handled with**

**traditional high-**

**volume conveyance**

**thus reducing costs by**

**50% when compared**

**to bale-based systems.**

- (

- $2.75/dry ton

- )

**C Milestone**

**By 2010, technologies**

**and methods are**

**developed to harvest**

**and collect nationally**

**xx M tons/year of ag.**

**residues with a 50%**

**cost reduction when**

**compared to current**

**(2003) technologies.**

- (

- $12.50/dry ton

- )

**C Milestone**

**By 2009, demonstrate**

**transportation cost**

**reductions resulting in**

**average transportation**

**costs of **

- $8/dry ton

** ****or**

**less.**

**C Milestone**

**By 2006, resource**

**data with national**

**coverage for all**

**significant existing**

**ag. residue resources**

**is up-to-date,**

**documented, and**

**readily accessible via**

**the internet**

- Systems

- Integration

_**C Milestone**_

**By 2007 develop optimized process and cost models for feedstock supply systems and validate analytically that ag residue feedstocks could be supplied to biorefineries at ****$35/dry ton.**

**<Indicate (highlight, circle, etc.) what milestones your project supports>**

## What Stage is the project in?

**<Indicate (highlight, circle, etc.) what Stage your project is in>**

- Stage Gate Fit

## Technical Barriers Addressed

**Cost**
**Social Impacts**
**Economic Impacts**
**Environmental Impacts**

**Biomass Variability**
**Engineering / Infrastructure**
**	****- Single Pass/Selective  Harvest**
**	****- Preprocessing & Storage**
**	****- Transportation**
**Resource Availability**
**Sustainability Requirements**
**	****- Erosion & Soil Health **
**	****- Crop Yield & Productivity**

**Technology  for Agricultural Residues**

**Technology for Energy Crops**

**Agriculture Sector Paradigm Shifts**
**Forest Sector Systems**
**New Crop Development**
**	****- Perennial Grasses**
**	****- Hybrid Poplar**
**	****- Willow**
**Other Long Term Barriers**

**Gray areas not covered in current review**

**1****st**** Tier**

**2****nd**** Tier**

**3****rd**** Tier**

**<Indicate (highlight circle, etc.) barrier(s) your project addresses>**

## List and discuss customers of this work

- Customers

## Discuss feasibility and risks of project and processes/technology it is developing (see Stage Gate guide)

- Technical Feasibility and Risks

## Discuss how this project will improve the chances of commercial launch of the technology.
Describe what could happen to make this area of research obsolete.

- Describe what could happen to make this area of research obsolete.

- Competitive Advantage

## Discuss project activities, participants, objectives

- Project Overview

## Discuss history and accomplishments at a level of technical detail sufficient to provide basis for reviewer evaluation – this is the “meat” of the presentation

- History and Accomplishments

## Show plans and schedule for this project and discuss any deviations or issues

- Plan/Schedule

## Discuss patent positions, waste streams emissions, safety, permitting, etc. issues.
Are these issues insurmountable?

- Are these issues insurmountable?

- Legal/Regulatory Compliance

## What are the critical performance parameters that must be met?
Are there any potential show-stoppers (e.g. environmental issues, capital replacement cycles/needs)

- Are there any potential show-stoppers (e.g. environmental issues, capital replacement cycles/needs)

- Critical Issues and Show-stoppers

## If this project is successful, what’s next?

- Plans and Resources for Next Stage

## Summary comments/issues

- Summary