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POET’s Broin awarded as “great innovator”

The head of POET Ethanol – who sees great potential for cellulosic ethanol – has been given the George Washington Carver Award at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology.

BIO describes Jeff Broin as “one of the great innovators and entrepreneurs in the industrial biotechnology sector.”

Just after receiving the award in Montreal on Monday, Broin told Brownfield it’s an honor and a testament to the work of the POET team. He says POET is committed to developing cellulosic ethanol, “Cellulosic ethanol continues to advance. You know, our plant continues a process of biomass every day and we’re learning more each and every day to advance that technology.”

Broin says the potential for growth is there, “The U.S. wastes about 1-Billion tons of cellulose per year – biomass, basically, per year that would produce 80-Billion gallons of cellulosic biofuels. That’s enough to replace all of our imports of oil and gasoline.”

Broin says the co-location of starch-based and cellulosic-based bio-refineries, as POET is doing in Emmetsburg, Iowa, is “very exciting and holds great potential for the country and the world.”

AUDIO: Interview with Jeff Broin

 

 

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