North Carolina State University will use a $4 million grant to study the most efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly ways of
producing biofuels from trees and from forest harvesting residue.
NC State is part of the Southeast Partnership for Integrated Biomass Supply Systems, a collaboration of several universities and industry
Partners. The partnership is funded for five years with a $15 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
The research will include understanding the challenges of storing and transporting biomass, and studying new developments in the
production of biofuels. It also includes developing and deploying measures of the environmental and economic impacts of producing biofuel.