Mario Pennisi – CEO, Life Sciences Queensland Ltd

THE BIOECONOMY – A VIEW OF THE

AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE

LSQ MEMBERS

LIFE SCIENCES

IN QUEENSLAND

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

BUILDING THE BIOECONOMY:

Building the bioeconomy through biomass transformation value

chains will offer a pathway to deliver:

• Jobs opportunities for the forestry and chemical industries

• Food security

• Energy security

• Profitable agricultural sector

• Regional development

• Sustainable farming and forestry practices

BENEFITS OF BIOREFINERIES:

TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE

Economic:

• New jobs

• Business investment and secondary flow-on

• Added value for biomass and biobased co-products

• Stimulating significant new innovation in high technology industries

Social:

• Growth in regional communities

• Population growth

• Industrial diversification

• Regional economic development

Environmental:

• Reduced greenhouse gas emissions

• Reduced fossil fuel emissions

CHALLENGES

• Access to and competition for biomass

• Defining sustainable practices

• Efficient logistics systems

• Sufficient capital investment

• Appropriate IP regimes

• Increased need of research and development (R&D)

• Identification of biobased products for substitution/replacement in

chemical industries

• Chemical industries to look at replacement strategies

• Perceptions and concerns regarding the impacts of biomass

collection

• Understanding by governments, researchers and the communities

• Biomass for biobased products could place pressure on existing

uses of the biomass

BIOMASS FEEDSTOCKS

• Sugarcane

• Energy Cane

• Wood chips/Forestry products

– Eucalyptus, plantation forests

• Sweet sorghum

• Wheat straw

• Pongamia

• Algae

SUGARCANE

• Global sugarcane industry

• Huge resource – 1.6 billion tonnes

• Established industrial crop

• Sugar and electricity

• Biotechnology – in infancy

• Bioenergy and bioethanol markets

significant

• Biomass - Sustainable, large resource

• Australia – World’s third largest exporter of

sugar

SUGARCANE – THE WORLD’S

BEST BIOENERGY CROP…

Five reasons why sugarcane is the best biomass crop in the world

• Highly efficient photosynthetic crop 1

• Huge resource - global 2

• Established industrial crop 3

• Resource - vastly under-utilised 4

• Crop residue already at factory 5

THE SUGARCANE INDUSTRY OF

TOMORROW…

• The future of sugarcane

– More biomass, more sucrose

– More resilience (drought, disease)

– More integrated cropping systems

(diversification and soil health)

– More value embedded in the cane

(proteins, plastics)

– Plant biotechnology

THE SUGARCANE INDUSTRY OF

TOMORROW…

• The future of sugarcane processing

– Lower cost sugarcane processing

– Novel process technologies

– Low energy, cleantech

– Diversified production of value-added

products

– Fermentable sugar platform for value

adding

– Industrial biotechnology

SUGARCANE IN AUSTRALIA

• Significant changes occurring in

industry ownership

– Has been consolidation in mill and farm

infrastructure

– Production stabilising with better global

sugar prices over the last 18 months

• Medium term outlook for sugar market

is fairly positive

• Australian sugar industry actively

seeking diversification opportunities –

particularly biofuels

BIOREFINERIES

Sugar cane

Renewable

electricity

Crystal

sugar

Ethanol,

Bio-crude

Chemicals

Filter

mud Bagasse

Export

Juice

Fertiliser

High value

chemicals

Molasses

Pulp

Chemicals

Bio-plastics

Ethanol

Waxes

Proteins

Plant made products

Biofuels

Pharmaceuticals

Industrial products

Ethanol

Animal feed

Biocomposites

Lignin

“Mackay Renewable energy technology

hub”: factory of the future

Raw sugar factory

Sugar refinery Cogeneration

R&D pilot

plant

Biomass

storage

Molasses

ethanol

distillery

Bagasse

ethanol

distillery

Other co-

products?

Value-

added

industries?

Port Service

industries

“Mackay Renewable energy

technology hub”: the future is now

MACKAY RENEWABLE

BIOCOMMODITIES PILOT PLANT

Publicly available research infrastructure to:

• Bridge the gap between laboratory

research and commercial investment

• Rapidly advance the commercialisation of

new technologies

• Connect global innovators to Australian

feedstock suppliers, investors, end-users

BIOREFINERIES

Sugar cane

Renewable

electricity

Crystal

sugar

Ethanol,

Bio-crude

Chemicals

Filter

mud Bagasse

Export

Juice

Fertiliser

High value

chemicals

Molasses

Pulp

Chemicals

Bio-plastics

Ethanol

Waxes

Proteins

Plant made products

Biofuels

Pharmaceuticals

Industrial products

Ethanol

Animal feed

Biocomposites

Lignin

CO-PRODUCT VALUE ADDING -

LIGNIN APPLICATIONS

BIODEGRADABLE FILMS FOR

AGRICULTURE

Advantages -Lower water use -Reduce waste -Improve yields/quality -Grow in marginal areas -Lower pesticide use

Film options

-Oxodegradable

-Oxo-biodegradable

-Biodegradable

-Biobased

GREEN CEMENT

MgO:MgCl2=7.8

H2O:MgCl2=20

MgO:MgCl2=6.8

H2O:MgCl2=12

X-ray and microstructures of different mix ratios

MgO:MgCl2=3.6

H2O:MgCl2=10

MgO:MgCl2=4.7

H2O:MgCl2=14

MULTI-PARTNER COLLABORATION

DRIVING INVESTMENT

Global

innovators

Research

innovations

Commercial outcomes

Regional Development

Greenhouse Gas Abatement

Multi-partner projects:

Feedstock suppliers

Investors

End-users

…Attracting global attention

Syngenta Centre for

Sugarcane Biofuels

Development

Leaf Energy program

Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation

Sugar Research and

Innovation

Biomass to

bioenergy and

biocommodities

Banana

biofortification and

tropical crop traits

DOW AND THE UNIVERSITY OF

QUEENSLAND (UQ) JOIN FORCES IN NEW

RESEARCH INITIATIVE

The Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation at the UQ campus

in Brisbane, Australia.

Queensland’s

Bioindustrial Opportunities

Source: Queensland Government

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Australian Government

• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy

• Super Science Fund

• Queensland Government

• Smart State Research Facilities Fund

• Queensland University of Technology

• Centre for Tropical Crops & Biocommodities - QUT

• Syngenta Biotechnology Inc

• Leaf Energy

• Sugar Research and Development Corporation

• Mackay Sugar Ltd

• University of Queensland

• Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

• University of Southern Queensland

LSQ MEMBERS

Mario Pennisi

Chief Executive Officer

Life Sciences Queensland Ltd

Level 3, 88 Jephson Street, Toowong QLD Australia

Ph: +61 7 3331 3999

Fax: +61 7 3870 9101

mpennisi@lsq.com.au www.lsq.com.au

The Australasian Bioenergy

and Bioproducts

Symposium

Friday 25th October 2013

Brisbane, Australia

www.tabbs.com.au