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Statement of Task
The Chemical Sciences Roundtable will hold a one-day public workshop on May 31,
2012, in Washington, DC, that will explore the current state of sustainable fuels and
chemicals, and the issues surrounding their scalability for large-scale use. The workshop
will also discuss the chemistry and chemical engineering opportunities to sustainably
produce large-scale quantities of biofuel. Both formal presentations and working groups
will be components of the workshop in an effort to stimulate engaging discussion among
participants from widely varying fields.
Key questions to be addressed include
• What is the current state of technology in large-scale production of sustainable fuels
and chemicals?
• What are the benefits and weaknesses of current technologies?
• What are the technological and commercial barriers to scaling up sustainable
technologies?
• How can we best combine chemical technologies of different scales to maximize
impact?
• How can we identify ways in which technologies of different practical scales can
complement each other?
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