(466c) Dupont's Biorefinery Vision in Support of Sustainable Biofuels & Biobased Chemicals

Sustainable development is core for DuPont, a company that is over 200-years old. DuPont has evolved from its heritage as a premier chemical and materials company to a science company that uses biology across its different platforms. DuPont has set a 2010 objective of having 25% of our global revenues from non-depletable resources and 10% of our energy needs from renewable sources. As part of this transformation, DuPont is creating new products and new business models based on renewable resources and biology. To this end, DuPont has created and staffed a variety of business units to support these new bio-inspired product lines: DuPont BioBased Materials – Energy & Specialties, DuPont BioBased Materials – Sorona® & Bio-PDOTM, DuPont and Tate & Lyle LLC, and DuPont Biofuels.

This talk will focus on the success factors needed for development of world-class bioprocesses and bioproducts that are both cost and investment competitive along with highlighting some of the technical achievements that DuPont has made with the conversion of corn stover to sugar then onwards to biofuels in addition to our market-leading process for making 1,3-propanediol.