The US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) have issued a joint funding opportunity announcement (FOA) of up to US$22.7 million to support Integrated Biorefinery Optimisation.
The US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) have issued a joint funding opportunity announcement (FOA) of up to US$22.7 million to support Integrated Biorefinery Optimisation.
Consisting of DOE’s US$19.8 million and USDA-NIFA’s US$2.9 million, the FOA seeks applications for projects focused on increasing integrated biorefinery (IBR) operational efficiencies, reducing technical and financial risks, and accelerating commercialisation of biofuels and bioproducts.
As part of the FOA, DOE and USDA-NIFA will identify, evaluate, and select meritorious applications for projects that address challenges encountered with the successful scale-up and reliable, continuous operation of IBRs for the manufacture of advanced or cellulosic biofuels and associated higher-value bioproducts.
The FOA includes the following four topic areas:
- Topic Area 1: Robust, continuous handling of solid materials (dry and wet feedstocks, biosolids, and/or residual solids remaining in the process) and feeding systems to reactors under various operating conditions;
- Topic Area 2: High value products from waste and/or other under-valued streams in an IBR;
- Topic Area 3: Industrial separations within an IBR; and
- Topic Area 4: Analytical modelling of solid materials (dry and wet feedstocks, and/or residual solids remaining in the process) and reactor feeding systems.
The submission deadline for concept papers is February 6, 2017, and the submission deadline for full applications is April 3, 2017. Further information and application materials are available on the EERE Exchange.
