FEATURED PROJECT Clean Burn Fuels Clean Burn Fuels employs more than 45 high-paying production and management positions. Clean Burn Fuels not only provides economically-depressed Hoke County with high-value job opportunities, but also provides the state with its first large- scale tax revenues from North Carolina biofuels production—all while reducing demand on imported petroleum resources. The Raeford, N.C. facility produces more than 100,000 gallons of fuel ethanol per day. When fully opera-tional, the 60 million gallon-per-year facility will also supply North Carolina’s hog and poultry industry with 18,000 bushels a day of low-cost animal feed.

Industry and Biomass Development ThermoChem Recovery International is operating a state-of-the-art thermochemical 4 ton-per-day pilot plant, producing renewable diesel and other advanced biofuels from North Carolina woody biomass and energy grasses.

Novozymes is the largest biofuels enzyme producer in the United States.

Global ag-biotech company Syngenta and the Biofuels Center are partnering to evaluate Sugarbeets at multiple research stations across the state.

The Biofuels Center has established an intercropping project with Weyerhaeuser and Catchlight Energy (a joint venture between Chevron and Weyerhaeuser) to assess Miscanthus for biofuels.

Chemtex International, a leading international engineering and design firm, has developed an advanced cellulosic biofuels platform with engineering design from its Wilmington offices.

Paradigm BioAviation is developing an aviation biofuels project for regional airports from its newly-established headquarters in Charlotte.

The multi-partner Eco-Complex enhances biodiesel research through real-world applications.

Carolina Land & Lakes RC&D and Foothills Bio-Energies are reducing the natural resource impact of biodiesel production.

Blue Ridge Biofuels is improving the economy and environment across western North Carolina by converting waste vegetable oil into biodiesel.

STARworks Biofuels is a community biodiesel production facility partnering with small business clusters.

Chatham County Economic Development Corporation, with Piedmont Biofuels Industrial and Novozymes, is researching conversion of brown grease and DAF sludge into biodiesel using a next-generation enzymatic process.

Triangle Biofuels Industries is a highly-efficient, multi-feedstock bio-diesel producer.

RTI International is developing syngas cleanup technology for biomass-to-advanced biofuels processes.

The Southern Research Institute expanded its carbon-to-liquids development center for biofuels production.

The Centralina Council of Governments and partners are developing bio-diesel processes using waste fats and greases suctioned from sewage.

Cape Fear Resource Conservation & Development, Inc. and Alganomics are developing algae downstream automated processes for commercialization.

North Carolina’s Northeast Economic Development Foundation is invest-ing in re-purposing a site for biofuels production.

GrassRoots Biotechnology is the one of the nation’s few verifiable comapnies at the juncture of biotechnology, plants and biofuels.

Funded by GoldenLEAF, the Biofuels Center developed sophisticated financial modeling tools for the entire value chain to verify the viability of 600 MGY of biofuels in N.C. and quantify the value to landowners, producers, and distributors.

At the Biofuels Campus, the N.C. Department of Agriculture is planting, growing, harvesting, and crushing various oilseed crops to develop agronomic and economic data for on-farm biodiesel production.

The Biofuels Center is developing trials for energy grass production on swine waste sprayfield acres in Sampson, Duplin, and Wayne counties to quantify value for commercial cellulosic biofuels development.

The project Eastern Gain, a partnership of the Biofuels Center and North Carolina’s Eastern Region, will work in the next five years to produce up to 50 million gallons of jet aviation biofuels from regional growing.

Research and EducationN.C. A&T State University’s Biological Engineering Department is converting cattails into ethanol and hog manure into heavy oil.

UNC-Charlotte researchers are developing fungal biopulping technology for ethanol production from low-cost woody biomass feedstocks.

Central Carolina Community College uses production equipment for the first biofuels associate degree program on the East Coast, and Haywood Community College offers continuing education courses in biodiesel production and safety.

Craven County high school students are growing, crushing, and processing Canola for biofuels production.

Washington High School students are producing biodiesel from waste vegetable oil.

Many N.C. State University departments are conducting Biofuels Center-funded research projects across North Carolina, including field trials; developing and refining production processes; educating students, farmers, biofuels produc-ers and the public; and operating the Biodiesel Pilot Plant Demonstration & Outreach Program at the Lake Wheeler Road Field Laboratory.

Based in Oxford on North Carolina’s Biofuels Campus, the Biofuels Center of North Carolina and the Biofuels Accelerator are the state’s biofuels nerve center.

Left, the Regensburg, Germany plant operates in the 1930s. Top left, HCL CleanTech CEO Eran Baniel locates his headquarters at the Biofuels Accelerator in Oxford. Above, HCL CleanTech pilots its advanced acid hydrolysis unit at Southern Research Institute in Durham.

Left, Jack Carlisle, President of Clean Burn Fuels, receives the 2010 Biofuelist of the Year Award from N.C. Governor Bev Perdue while W. Steven Burke, President and CEO of the Biofuels Center of North Carolina, congratulates him on his achievement. Top left and above, the Clean Burn Fuels facility is pictured under construction in Raeford.

FEATURED PROJECT HCL CleanTech | U.S. Headquarters at North Carolina’s Biofuels CampusThe Biofuels Center is facilitating a biofuels opportunity with technology develop-ments owned by HCL CleanTech at the Domtar pulp mill in Plymouth, N.C. These companies are evaluating a project based on a large-scale industrial process developed in pre-World War II Germany. The improved process produces high-value fermentable sugars for advanced biofuels from a low-value woody biomass stream. The Center expects the opportunity to yield some of the nation’s earliest commercial-scale advanced biofuels production.

Biofuels Statewide, 2011 • Growing Activities and Companies

W. Steven Burke, President and CEO • Mark Conlon, Vice President of Sector Development Ashley Jones, Director – Government and External Affairs • Norman Smit, Director – Communications and Education

Biofuels Center of North Carolina | 901 Hillsboro Street • PO Box 1919 • Oxford, N.C. 27565 | Phone 919-693-3000 • Fax 919-603-5600www.biofuelscenter.org – Biofuels Center’s website • www.biofuelswiki.org – international biofuels online encyclopedia • www.ncbiofuels.net – consumer-directed biofuels information site

7 February 2011