Proceedings - Biomass South 2008

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Dr. John Cundiff, Professor of Biological Systems, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College of Engineering, Virginia Tech

John S. Cundiff is Professor of Biological Systems Engineering at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Cunduff's research interests are in alternate crops for fuel and chemicals, fluid power systems and controls for mobile applications, and peanut quality improvement.

Feedstock Logistics in the Southeast

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Notes:

• The southeast will lead the nation in the production of biofuels
• Ag residues > forest corn stover, greatest residue
• Corn stover 2000 ton/yr/machine, 182h operation $35.54/h
• Switchgrass 8500 ton/yr/machine, 739h operation $17.28/h
• To get a plant need to know how much feedstock and what is the delivered cost?
• Machine cost is cheaper in SE
• Piedmont - reuse tobacco lands
  • 5% of land is usable (abandoned farmland, etc) could be put into energy production
• Weighted Mass-distance scenario
• Storage
  • Need twice as much land in Midwest as southeast for same size
  • How can we unload 32 round bales in less than 10 min?

Thanks to Sarah Ashton, Rachel Cook, Lindsey Hannum, James Jeuck, Liwei Lin, James McCarter, Susan McIntyre, and Mark Megalos for providing notes and summaries for presentations.