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April 13, 2007

ConocoPhillips Establishes $22.5 M Biofuels Research Program at Iowa State

Research program to promote biorenewable fuels technologies.
Houston, Texas [RenewableEnergyAccess.com]

ConocoPhillips, which recently announced its support for the mandatory national framework to address greenhouse gas emissions, will establish an eight-year, $22.5 million research program at Iowa State University dedicated to developing technologies that produce biorenewable fuels.

The so-called bio-oil can be used as a heating oil or can be converted into transportation fuel at petroleum refineries.

The grant is part of ConocoPhillips' plan to create joint research programs with major universities to produce viable solutions to diversify America's energy sources.

"I'm pleased Iowa State University and ConocoPhillips will partner to research and develop new technologies for producing biofuels," said Iowa Governor Chet Culver.

"We believe the key to a secure energy future is the efficient and effective use of a diverse mix of energy sources," said Jim Mulva, chairman and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips. "ConocoPhillips is developing long-term relationships with respected academic institutions such as Iowa State to research extensions of traditional energy sources that ultimately will benefit consumers."

Robert C. Brown, the Iowa Farm Bureau Director of Iowa State's Office of Biorenewables Programs, said ConocoPhillips is especially interested in converting biomass to fuel through fast pyrolysis, a process that uses heat in the absence of oxygen to decompose biomass into a liquid product. The so-called bio-oil can be used as a heating oil or can be converted into transportation fuel at petroleum refineries. Brown said ConocoPhillips also will sponsor studies of other thermochemical technologies that produce biofuels.
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April 13, 2007
Is there enough land to grow the biofuels needed to meet the demand for energy?
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April 14, 2007
No there is not.
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April 19, 2007
With a Pyrolysis process all kinds of cellulose can be used as feedstock, AG, solid waste even sluge.

the charcoal production is placed in the soil, The goal is reproduction of the high Cation Exchange Concentration (CEC), Soil Organic Matter (SOM), elevated soil microbe and symbiotic fungus populations, and water holding that allows the tripling of yields demonstrated in small university studies.

The concomitant benefits of using the soil as a ubiquitous and virtually bottomless carbon sink is an overall 1/3 reduction in soil greenhouse gas emissions of CH4 and N2O, truly carbon negative bio fuels from the closed-looped pyrolysis process of biomass conversion to charcoal, and Carbon Credits for farmers.

Thanks for your help in looking into this engineering challenge.


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If interested in further information please visit; http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/?q=about
or this earth science forum http://forums.hypography.com/terra-preta.html
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May 18, 2007
This process is being used already and in production phase.

U.S. Sustainable Energy Corp.(USSE)

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