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

A recent DOE project with the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium analyzed the initial distribution of feedstock critical material attributes (CMAs) and strategies to manage this variability. Understanding key sources of biomass variability (e.g., growth conditions, harvest conditions, storage degradation) to identify and quantify CMA distributions that propagate across unit operations to inform cost-effective management of variability. At the DOE Project Peer Review sessions, NREL’s Bryon Donohoe and Idaho National Lab’s Yidong Xia gave  this presentation on the state of the project and the road ahead.