Life cycle sustainability assessment of wood derived drop-in biofuels — Case of the Northeast Forest based product industry

THE biofuel research and production sector is enjoying an unprecedented amount of public and private efforts in order to remove various financial, ethical and technical barriers. One of these very important barriers is the challenge of developing biofuels that are compatible with existing gasoline, jet fuel and diesel infrastructure. Drop-in biofuel is a fuel produced from various biomass which are compatible with over $9 trillion energy refinery and gas station infrastructure currently available in the United States. The system boundary included stages like biomass production (including site preparation and seedling production), biomass transportation, biomass conversion (TDO process) and fuel utilization.