The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Feedstock Material Handling

A recent DOE project with the Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium analyzed a primary challenge in the design of a biorefinery — — the storage, transport, and reactor feeding of the biomass feedstocks, as material handling/feeding is prone to process upsets such as jamming and clogging, resulting in increased downtime and ultimately higher costs. The project aims to develop first principles-based design tools that enable continuous, steady, trouble-free bulk flow transport through processing train to reactor throat and enable applications of the developed tools to industry stakeholders. At the DOE Project Peer Review sessions, Idaho National Laboratory’s Yidong Xia gave  this presentation on the state of the project and the road ahead.