Biobased Materials

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Calls for Proposals

IFAFS Preproposal letter to be received  by 3/23/01 
Proposal Receipt dat 4/23/01 
USDA Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (IFAFS). 

 

Collection of 2020 Roadmaps

Link and Title Comment

Technology Roadmap for Plant/Crop-Based Renewable Resources 2020

Developed in 1998 to focus on key technology areas identified in the vision use of existing crops and modified plants

Separations Technologies


This report documents the results of  four workshops on the technology barriers, research needs, and priorities of the chemical, agricultural, petroleum, and pharmaceutical industries as they relate to separation technologies utilizing adsorbents, crystallization, distillation, extraction, membranes, separative reactors, ion exchange, bioseparations, and dilute solutions.

 New Biocatalysts: Essential Tools for a Sustainable 21st Century Chemical Industry, August 2000. (PDF file). 

Published by The Council for Chemical Research. For copies, contact William Scouten, 210-458-4450,wscouten@utsa.edu.

 Computational Chemistry, September 1999

Sponsored by The Council for Chemical Research.

Technology Roadmap for Materials of Construction, Operation and Maintenance in the Chemical Process Industries, April 1999.

 Published by the National  Institute of Standards and Technology. 

Catalyst Technology Roadmap Report, June 1997. 

Published by Sandia National Laboratories. For copies, contact NTIS Bookstore, 703-605-6040, code DE97009294. 

Technology Roadmap for Computational Fluid Dynamics, January 1999


Sponsored by The Council for Chemical Research. Technology

 

Other Areas of Interest

Biobased Products and Bioenergy Newsletter - March 2001

A collection o useful links to current and pending legislation at state and national levels, meeting announcement, solicitations, and fundinmg agencies.

Biobased Products and Bioenergy Initiative

National Biobased Products and Bioenergy Web site. The purpose of this site is to provide information about the multi-agency Federal activities relating to biobased products and bioenergy. 
Links to events, current solicitations, legislation, fed agencies involved in biobased products research.
Biomass R&D Act, 2000
Execeutive Order 13134, August ,  1999 The objective of this order is to stimulate the creation and early adoption of technologies needed to make biobased products and bioenergy cost-competitive in large national and international markets.
The Iowa Program in Biobased Materials
Fifth Biomass Conf of the America  Sept 17-21, 2001 Orlando
Last modified 3/23/2001
Created 3/15/2001
Comments, corrections etc to W.T. Winter < wtwinter@syr.edu>