Next 10 to 15 years • Gasoline Demand/Ethanol Demand Expected to Decrease due to Electrification of Light Duty Fleet • Desire to improve Carbon Efficiency of Ethanol Plants • How to monetize existing assets • Expanding products from existing assets • Electrification
Potomac Economics 2017 State of the Market Report for the MISO Electricity Market – Analytic Appendix (June 2018) • Hours with energy at very low and very high prices are increasing • Other revenue streams (e.g., capacity, services) are becoming more critical • Wind and solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) are key opportunities
on acid1 and ester2 conversion to nitriles • 3-HP ( ) selected as initial substrate given facile dehydration to acrylate product • Esterification ( ) is often used as a separations technique for bio-derived acids Karp et al., Science 358, 1307–1310 (2017) OVERALL NITRILATION REACTION +203 kJ/mol + NH3 TiO2 + 2H2 O ΔH 0 rxn + dehydration aminolysis amide dehydration 1. G.D. van Epps et al., JACS (1916) 2. B.V. Suvorov et al., J. Appl. Chem. USSR (1987)
of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. Thank you Randy D. Cortright, Ph.D. Strategic Lead for Electrons to Molecules Senior Research Advisor