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Office of the Biomass Program Products Interim Stage Gate Review Initial Reviewer Feedback

Common Reviewer Thoughts. Overall the presenters did a good job of answering review panel questions and sticking to the presentation template provided.Presentations needed to provide more detailed quantitative information on their goals and achievements.Better Performance Metrics are neededNot a

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Office of the Biomass Program Products Interim Stage Gate Review Initial Reviewer Feedback

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    1. Office of the Biomass Program Products Interim Stage Gate Review Initial Reviewer Feedback Presented by: Christopher Guske, Tate & Lyle Martha Schlicher, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center August 10, 2005

    2. Common Reviewer Thoughts Overall the presenters did a good job of answering review panel questions and sticking to the presentation template provided. Presentations needed to provide more detailed quantitative information on their goals and achievements. Better Performance Metrics are needed Not a universal understanding of what competitive advantage means.

    3. Analysis Projects

    4. Biorefinery Integration Analysis for Products Joe Bozell, NREL and John Holladay, PNNL Strengths Work and assessment has the most significant and broadest impact (acts as an engine “driving” the Program in the right direction). Voice of the program/Best sellers. Suggestions and/or Weaknesses Make sure those doing the analysis stay connected to Program. Make sure information readily available to everyone who needs it. Need to make sure analysis activities are getting the resources needed. Need to know what’s limiting the analysis (people/funding). To do an Oil Platform Analysis, need right resources i.e. an oleo chemist Not sure we need an oils top ten analysis? Need to work with existing oil partners to determine the need of analysis/potential Industry seems to be broad - make sure look at breadth of industry partners not just major players. Potential to include academia for feedback. Another potential criteria - whether or not assessment or weighting included if existing petrochemical process had negative environmental impacts compared to the alternative biomass-derived chemical (LCA comparison). Need to look at product impurities and impact.

    5. Product Opportunities – Analysis for Products* Rick Orth, PNNL Strengths Work and assessment has the most significant and broadest impact (acts as an engine “driving” the Program in the right direction). Voice of the program/Best sellers. Suggestions and/or Weaknesses Make sure those doing the analysis stay connected to Program. Make sure information readily available to everyone who needs it. Industry seems to be broad - make sure look at breadth of industry partners not just major players. Potential to include academia for feedback. May be duplicating efforts in developing these tools. Concern about putting models together using implicit assumptions. Each process has fundamental differences, so to have a “boiler plate” can be deceiving and not sure, ultimately, how practical it is. Balancing what DOE vs. what industry should be doing on their own. Who’s benefiting the most from these tools, need to be very public to add value to small businesses. Need to do benchmarking or “reality check” with industry. Can’t use cost figures, etc. just by calling vendors because you won’t get good numbers. Tool needs to be peer reviewed. Process for determining products selected needs to be defined programmatically. Should include one of the other top ten. Need to be clear/transparent why selecting certain unit operations and not others in tool.

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