DOE launches RFI on four topics to advance the bioeconomy in USA
Type of post: NEWS.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE’s) Bioenergy Technologies Office
(BETO) is requesting information on four topics.
Topic 1:
Leveraging First Generation Bioethanol Production Facilities
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BETO is
seeking information related to the development and integration of
technologies that could increase the production of cellulosic fuels,
cellulosic sugars, and chemicals from corn fiber. BETO, in coordination with
DOE's Office of Fossil Energy, is also seeking information about technologies
to convert or activate gaseous carbon dioxide emitted from fermentation of
corn-starch feedstocks, as well as other gaseous emissions from other
biorefinery processes, into fuels and co-products.
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Topic 2: Systems to Handle Commingled Food Waste Streams
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BETO is
soliciting feedback to help understand the quantity, quality, and sources of
generation of food waste in America, as well as options for converting that
waste into value-added fuels, chemicals, and power.
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Topic 3:
Bridging Industry & Government to Publish Existing High-Impact Data
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BETO is
seeking information regarding potential efforts to collect, and possibly pay
for, existing high-quality bioenergy datasets that are underused or economically
stranded in order to publish on established public databases and bolster the
growing bioeconomy with industrially relevant data across the supply chain.
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Topic 4:
Algal Biomass Feedstock Quality and Conversion Interface for Biofuels and
Bioproducts
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BETO is
seeking information on issues related to the interface between cultivation
and conversion R&D to develop biofuels and bioproducts from algal
biomass.
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Figure 1. “Systems to Handle Commingled Food
Waste Streams” is one of the topics of the BETO’s RFI
- Purpose: To solicit feedback from industry,
academia, research laboratories, government agencies and other stakeholders to
help ensure research areas are relevant, timely, appropriate for federal
government funding and aligned with Administration priorities.
- Deadline: Responses to this request must be
submitted electronically to EERE_Bioenergy@ee.doe.gov
no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET) on September 6, 2019.
- Note: This is solely a request for information
and not a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).
