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Fig. 19.6 Advanced biofuels integration with petroleum refining
State of Industry
For the most part, the comments made about the cellulosic ethanol industry hold for
the advanced biofuels industry as well. One important distinction is that if the
approach for processing inside petroleum refineries develops to a state where it is
commercially viable, several large petroleum refinery industrial players have stated
they would be interested in adopting the technology. This would be a dramatic shift
in the biofuels industry because it would constitute a change from many small
companies to a few well-established large players. These larger players would
address the issue of not having adequate resources to take the technology to
commercial deployment.
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