Full Title: Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium Capstone Report
Author(s): Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium
Publisher(s): Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium
Publication Date: December 21, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
The Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC), led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), is a collaborative effort among researchers from nine national laboratories focused on solving challenges related to biomass feedstock variability in biorefineries.
Researchers from the FCIC recognize that lignocellulosic feedstocks are nonhomogeneous and have greater variability compared to other agricultural commodities such as grains. As a result, empirical approaches to equipment design for processing these feedstocks have proven unsuccessful in pioneer biorefineries.
FCIC researchers use first-principles based science to better understand the physical, mechanical, thermochemical, and biochemical interactions and reactions as solid feedstocks are processed in biorefineries to produce liquid fuels and bioproducts. This knowledge is used to develop models and tools that help industry de-risk biorefinery scale-up and deployment and optimize bioenergy conversion processes in the future.
The achievements of the FCIC are summarized only briefly in this report. Details are presented in more than 100 scientific publications, conference presentations, and technical reports, links to which are included at the end of this report.