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Quarterly Progress Report Format
Project Title: Mississippi State University Sustainable Energy Research Center
Award Number: DE-FG36-06GO86025
Recipient: Mississippi State University
Project Location: Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi
Reporting Period:
Date of Report:
Written by:
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Task 6.0 Biomass Feedstock development
Principle Investigators:
Project Objectives: Biomass feedstock that can be converted into transportation fuels has become the cornerstone to the US strategy of replacing 20% of the US transportation fuel with renewable fuel in the near future. Several crops have shown promise to provide adequate annual biomass productivity to accomplish this national goal. The DOE has partnered with the USDA to develop regional field trials to help establish the potential for growing energy crops in different regions of the US to accomplish this goal. The SERC is conducting studies to determine the average annual yields of several feedstocks that contribute to both sugar-based ethanol and oil-based diesel fuel alternatives. We are conducting these studies to coordinate and compliment with currently funded Sun Grant Regional Yield Trial studies to determine the potential biomass available in the Southeastern US for renewable fuels.
Status:
Subtask 6.1 Yield Trials
1. Planned Activities:
Year 1 and 2 deliverables consist of measuring yield response to annual performance of yield as a function of environment and management practices and compiling those measurements into a representative yield estimate of biomass available for conversion to transportation fuel.
2. Actual Accomplishments: (Describe actual accomplishments between April 1, 2009 – June 30, 2009.
3. Explanation of Variance: None.
4. Plans for Next Quarter:
Subtask 6.2 Feedstock engineering
1. Planned Activities:
Year one deliverable is the quantification of the expected cost of providing three Southeastern-based feedstocks to refinery/biorefinery company gate.
Year two deliverable is the quantification of the expected cost of providing three additional Southeastern-based feedstocks to refinery/biorefinery company gate.
2. Actual Accomplishments: (Describe actual accomplishments between April 1, 2009 – June 30, 2009.3.
Explanation of Variance: None.
4. Plans for Next Quarter:
Patents: (A cumulative list of patents applied for or resulting from the award, including date of application and receipt of patent(s) and date and status of DOE notification).
Publications / Presentations: (Identify all publications and presentations resulting from the project between January 1, 2009 and March 31, 2009. Please follow the examples below when providing this information).
Book:
Coleman, H. W. and Steele, W. G., Experimentation and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1999.
Book Chapter:
Coleman, H. W. and Steele, W. G., "Uncertainty Analysis,"Chapter 39, CRC Handbook of Fluid Dynamics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1998.
Journal Article:
Steele, W. G. and Schneider, J. A., “Undergraduate Laboratory Experiences Using Uncertainty Analysis to Validate Engineering Models with Experimental Data,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2007, pp. 387-393.
Conference Presentation:
Steele, W. G. and Coleman, H. W., “Quantification of Uncertainties in Computational Mechanics Simulations Using Experimental Uncertainty Analysis Concepts,” Paper 2836, 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and the 5th European Congress on Computational Mechanics in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Venice, Italy, June 30 - July 4, 2008.
Lecture:
Steele, W. G., “Renewable Energy,” Session – Clean Energy for the Consumer, Ninth Annual Conference on High Technology, Jackson, MS, Dec. 9-10, 2008.
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