Capabilities
Description NREL’s state-of-the-art bench-scale fermentation laboratory can be used to test micro-organisms and process conditions from shake flask to 10-liter
Description This capability involves prediction of carbon, nitrogen, and water cycling in agricultural ecosystems at the scale of individual soil
Description Establishing consistent flow of biomass is important for determining biorefinery operations and viability, and a large contributor to shutdown
Description Semi-batch fluid-bed gasifier featuring extensive downstream processing including catalytic tar reforming and pressure-swing adsorption. Ability to process syngas to
Description This capability encompasses INL’s expertise in advancing the underlying technologies required for the research and development of biomass processing
Description Characterization of jet/diesel fuels, including SAF. Freeze point, derived cetane number, flashpoint, heat of combustion, viscosity (-60C to 315C,
Description This laboratory has capabilities for evaluating catalysts for upgrading bio-derived intermediates (syngas, etc.) at the gram-scale in fixed-bed reactors.
Description The Systems Assessment Center (SAC) offers life cycle analysis (LCA) and sustainability modeling expertise to help the U.S. bioenergy
Description We have developed a high-throughput screening protocol that allows us to screen multiple plant growth promoting micro-organisms (PGPMs) in
Description The high-moisture pelleting process developed at Idaho National Laboratory eliminates the energy-intensive drying step in pellet production. In this
Description The NREL Biomass Compositional Analysis Team can perform high-throughput conversion screening of biomass samples using multiple pretreatment chemistries followed
Description NREL’s hydrotreater is designed to mimic operation of an industrial hydrotreater using small feedstock samples and/or novel catalytic materials