Capabilities
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Experimental Determination of Fundamental Thermophysical Properties and Fuel-Specification Testing of Bio-Derived Blendstocks and Blended Fuels
A wide range of instruments and tools are available to measure the physical properties, chemical composition and speciation, and kinetic behavior of fuels. The fuel properties of both pure components and blended fuels are archived in the Fuel Property Database, which is an open, publicly-accessible platform. Read More
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Fully Equipped Organic Synthesis Capabilities
Biofuel and bioblendstock evaluation is enabled by expertise in the design and organic synthesis of candidate biofuels under batch and flow conditions up to 10L scale. Read More
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Catalytic Process Development and Blendstock Production
Researchers have access to a broad range of catalyst design, synthesis and testing capabilities, coupled to batch and flow reactors for small scale process design and bio-blendstock production suitable for making testable quantities. Read More
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Synthetic Biology & Advanced Fermentation Strategies for Biofuels
The broad range of synthetic biology, metabolic and biochemical engineering and advanced fermentation capabilities, including computational approaches, can significantly accelerate biofuel development. Read More
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Thermochemical Process Development
NREL and PNNL have available engineering and pilot-scale systems to develop, test and refine processes for thermochemical conversion of biomass to liquid fuels and chemicals. Read More
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Refinery Integration Analysis
The refinery integration analysis quantifies the economic values of bio-blendstocks to petroleum refiners and their environmental impacts. Read More
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Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI)
The JEDI model estimates jobs, earnings, and output distributed across three categories, i.e., direct, indirect and induced effects, supported by biorefinery construction and operation. Read More
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Bioeconomy Air Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Energy Consumption Model (Bioeconomy AGE)
Bioeconomy AGE estimates the potential energy and environmental benefits of large-scale development and rollout of Co-Optima vehicle and fuel technologies for scenarios defined in part using ADOPT and the BSM. Read More
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Automotive Deployment Options Projection Tool (ADOPT) and Biomass Scenario Model (BSM)
ADOPT is a vehicle consumer choice and stock model which estimates vehicle technology improvement impacts on future U.S. light-duty vehicle sales, energy use, and emissions; it is currently being expanded to also contain heavy-duty vehicles. The BSM is a dynamic model of the domestic bioenergy supply chain that integrates resource availability, physical/technological/economic constraints, behavior, and policy to track the deployment of bioenergy technologies. Read More
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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
Life-cycle analysis (LCA) explores key sustainability metrics critical to ensure that an underlying integrated process will be an environmentally beneficial design, which is the ultimate desired outcome when pursuing biomass-derived fuels and chemicals. Read More