Can large integrated refineries replace all crude oil with cellulosic feedstocks for drop-in hydrocarbon biofuels?

Charles Forsberg is a Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Forsberg has worked on chemical pilot plants and nuclear fuel cycles, and his current research interests are in low-carbon nuclear renewable futures—specifically, large-scale heat storage and nuclear biofuel systems. Before joining MIT, Dr. Forsberg was a corporate fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He is also a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a Fellow and former Director of the American Nuclear Society, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published more than 300 papers and holds 12 patents. Dr. Forsberg received his chemical engineering degree from the University of Minnesota and his PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT.

Bruce Dale is a University Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering at Michigan State University. Dr. Dale also serves as Editor-in-Chief and founding Editor of the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining. He won the Charles D. Scott Award (1996) for his contributions to biofuel production, and the Sterling Hendricks Award (2007) for his contributions to agriculture. He was also elected as a Fellow of AIChE in 2011, and as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015. In 2017, he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He has published more than 320 journal papers and has received 63 U.S. and international patents. Dr. Dale received his Bch and MS degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Arizona and his PhD from Purdue University in Indiana.