BioEnergy

The goal of the Bioenergy subproject is to enable the production of 3rd generation hydrocarbon transportation biofuels from bioenergy crops that are grown using treated PW from the fracking process. This subproject has two primary FAs: (1) determine the potential for treated PW from shale fracking to grow perennial grasses as feed-stocks, and (2) develop an energy-efficient recyclable catalytic process for the transformation of biomass to bio-crude oil, which can be refined to liquid transportation fuels. Dr. Amarasekara is the group leader for this subproject.