DOE Grant: Advancing Comprehensive Biomass Feedstock Logistics for Cellulosic Biofuels Production

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The intent of this FOA is to stimulate the design and demonstration of a
comprehensive system to handle the harvesting, collection, preprocessing,
transport and storage of sufficient volumes of sustainably produced
feedstocks
required to achieve the rapid expansion of the commercial domestic biofuels

industry.

DOE is seeking applications from consortia that include at least one
Original
Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of industrial/agricultural equipment used in
harvest, collection, preprocessing, transport and storage of
lignocellulosic
feedstocks. Typical entities that may partner with OEMs include: growers,
transport companies, universities, national labs, and biorefineries or
conversion facilities. Other interested entities may partner with any
applicant consortium. One entity must be designated as the lead
(Applicant) by
members of the consortium.

This FOA requests that applicants define, design, fabricate, and
demonstrate a
comprehensive industrial scale feedstocks logistics handling system capable
of
supplying high impact feedstocks to support production of cellulosic
domestic
biofuels. For purposes of this FOA, ¿high impact¿ feedstocks have the
ultimate
sustainable potential for at least 100 million dry metric tonnes per year.
All
aspects of harvest, collection, preprocessing, handling, transport, storage
and
delivery should be addressed comprehensively in the proposal.

To support DOE¿s goals, it is expected that system components proposed will
be
operational within one to two years after applicants are selected.
Comprehensive systems are sought that have the capability to proceed
rapidly
through demonstration to commercialization. It is expected that the
successfully completed projects under this FOA will lead to
commercialization
of the project systems. Only those applicants who are willing and able to
diligently pursue the system demonstration and have a sound business
strategy
to deploy, license, and market the system and it¿s components should apply.

Applicants must secure licensing, use, and/or manufacturing rights for any
equipment or components used in the proposed comprehensive system.

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