The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Preprocessing

A recent DOE project with the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium aims to develop science-based design and operation principles informed by TEA/LCA that result in predictable, reliable, and scalable performance of preprocessing unit operations.  The investigators aim to develop design principles for various working envelopes of critical material attributes  and critical process parameters for corn stover, forest residues, and municipal solid waste that reliably produce critical quality attributes (CQAs) necessary for downstream conversion of feedstocks to SAF. At the DOE Project Peer Review sessions, Idaho National Laboratory’s Jordan Klinger gave  this presentation on the state of the project and the road ahead.