Biofuel Research Grant Awarded
The Auburn University's Department of Biosystems Engineering has been awarded $4.9 million to help develop systems which will handle, deliver and lower the cost of biomass feedstock from the seed to the pump.Feedstock is raw material, usually plant or agricultural waste, that can be processed into fuel."Our feedstock is going to be woody biomass with the kind of the trees and things we have all around us here in the South," said Steven Taylor, head and director of the department of biosystems engineering.Biomass is a clean, renewable energy source that can help diversify transportation fuels in the U.S., according to the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) News Web site.Auburn University was one of the five projects awarded the federal grant by the U.S.