DOE Selects Biomass Feedstock Logistics Projects to Receive up to
$21 Million in Funding
by Kristen Johnson, DOE Biomass Program
and Jaime Redick, BCS, Incorporated
A thriving domestic biofuels industry will require not only biomass growers and processing facilities, but also the infrastructure to connect the two. On August 31, 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of the Biomass Program (OBP) announced five industry- and university-led projects that will receive up to $21 million in funding to address this critical link. These feedstock logistics projects will help develop a supply system that can transport large quantities of feedstocks from growers to biorefineries for conversion to fuels, power, and bioproducts.
This is the first competitive solicitation that the OBP Feedstock Platform has been able to run in several years. It is the first time OBP has formally partnered with industrial equipment manufacturers with the purpose of developing feedstock-handling systems that will allow high-tonnage biomass feedstocks to be delivered to the biorefinery on a cost-competitive basis.
The projects will address challenges associated with all aspects of feedstock logistics infrastructure—harvesting, collection, preprocessing, transport, and storage. |
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