Sustainable Production and Distribution of Bioenergy for the Central USA
The Markets and Distribution team was responsible for evaluating farm-level adoption decisions and exploring policy, market, and contract mechanisms that facilitate broad scale adoption of perennials in the landscape.
The team focused on two research themes:
Bioenergy feedstock production will have inherent differences from current agricultural processes. These differences could increase the potential for workforce injury or death if not properly understood and if effective protective counter measures are not in place.
The Health and Safety research team addresses two key worker safety elements in the biofuel feedstock supply chain:
The Post-Harvest research group was led by Robert C. Brown, Director of Iowa State University's Bioeconomy Institute.
The Post-Harvest group has three research teams. Learn about what what each team is up up to and see what materials they have produced by clicking on these team links:
The Feedstock Conversion/Refining team is preparing a detailed economic analysis of the performance of a biorefinery based on pyrolytic processing of biomass into liquid fuels.
The goal of Feedstock Conversion/Refining is to prepare a detailed economic analysis of the performance of a biorefinery based on pyrolytic processing of biomass into liquid fuels.
