2009 National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bio-products
The mission of the National Alliance for Advance Biofuels and Bio-products (NAABB) is to lay the technical foundations for a scalable, responsible and a ordable renewable biofuels industry. Th e NAABB currently includes academic and research institutions and is forming an industry-focused consortium. Our technical vision is based on several key concepts: 1) the development of agronomic systems for sustainable cultivation of oleaginous microalgae using non-arable land and sustainable water sources; 2) the creation of e cient methods for harvesting and extracting fuel feedstocks; and 3) the establishment of an integrated process to support widespread commercialization of value-added co-products resulting from algal biomass.
As a National Alliance, we incorporate technical expertise in algal biology and cultivation for various growth ecosystems such as arid and temperate inland, coastal, and o -shore environments. A promising example would be the use of arid land with locally available brackish, saline, and produced water to grow oil-rich, marine microalgae in the southwestern United States. In addition, many in our organization represent a historical commitment to sustainable agriculture and rural economic development. Our goal is to capitalize on this broad base to determine the best environment in which to produce algal fuels to meet the National needs. In addition, the NAABB explicitly recognizes the need for international cooperation in sustainable biofuel production to exploit regional resources. is will lead to long-term political and socio-economic bene ts to mankind through the development of a distributed, sustainable, post-petroleum renewable fuel economy.
Algal photosynthesis is known to be far more e cient than even the most proli c agricultural crop. As a result, only algae cultivation can produce renewable fuel feedstocks at scales capable of replacing petroleum-derived fuels. Currently there is no agronomic system for microalgae cultivation that is scalable to the millions of hectares required to sustain the U.S. transportation fuel market. Our vision incorporates bringing together academia, industry, and national laboratories to participate in technology development, intellectual property sharing, dissemination of information to the industry, and training of the next generation algal biofuels scientists, engineers, and agronomists
Contact: Dr. V. Chaitanya, VPRGI@nmsu.edu
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