Current Challenges in Commercially Producing Biofuels from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Table 1

Potential lignocellulosic biomass that is available in US and their average yield (dry ton per acre).

	Plantation in US 2012 (million acres)	Average yield (dry ton/acre)
Herbaceous agricultural residue
Corn	90.0	3.1
Grain sorghum	7.5	1.2
Oat	3.4	1.1
Barley	4.0	2.2
Wheat	60.5	1.6
Soybean	71.5	2.3
Cotton	9.7
Rice	3.0	4.0
Sugar cane bagasse	0.9	15.0
Dedicated energy crop
LIHD prairie		1.8
Managed native prairie		2.5
Shawnee switchgrass		5.0
Bioenergy switchgrass		7.4
Hybrid switchgrass		9.4
Miscanthus		13.2
Woody residues
Hybrid Poplar		7.0
Eucalyptus		9.0
Pine		5.1