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The National Algal Biofuels Technology Roadmap Workshop, held December 9-10, 2008, was convened by the Department of Energy‘s Office of Biomass Program in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). This two day event successfully brought together more than 200 scientists, engineers, research managers, industry representatives, lawyers, financiers and regulators. The workshop participants broadly represented stakeholders from different areas of industry, academia, the National laboratory system as well as governmental and non-governmental agencies and organizations. The primary purpose of the workshop was to discuss and identify the critical barriers currently preventing the economical production of algal biofuels at a commercial scale. This document represents the output from the workshop and is intended to provide a comprehensive roadmap report that summarizes the state of algae-to-fuels technology and documents the techno-economic challenges that likely must be met before algal biofuel can be produced commercially. This document also seeks to explain the economic and environmental impacts of using algal biomass for the production of liquid transportation fuels Based on the outcome of the workshop, the technical barriers identified involve several scientific and engineering issues which together represent a significant challenge to the development of biofuels from microalgae. Taking these barriers into consideration, this roadmap also serves to make research and funding recommendations that will begin to lay the groundwork for overcoming the technical barriers that currently prevent the production of economically viable algal-based biofuels.

Added on 19 May 2010
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