Fact Sheets

INL’s ATS allows researchers and industry to torrefy wood chips, agriculture residues and municipal solid waste for lab- and pilot-scale testing.

The laboratory features advanced capabilities for sample preparation, characterization, analyzing storage performance and predicting conversion performance.

The Bioenergy Feedstock Library is an extensive collection of data on biomass feedstock characteristics compiled in an easy-to-access central repository.

The use of chemical preprocessing using thermal, chemical or biological treatments can produce value-added bioenergy feedstocks.

Advanced pelleting processes at INL can reduce transportation costs and improve flowability, processing performance and conversion performance for biorefineries.

Fractionation capabilities and research at INL support innovative biomass feedstock processes, reducing costs and improving supply chain logistics.

The PDU allows industry partners to test a variety of size reduction, milling, drying, pelletizing, cubing, torrefaction, and mechanical and chemical separation options.

DAIRIEES is an evaluation platform that facilitates more informed decisions concerning the environmental benefits and economic costs of an integrated manure-algae system.