The links below provide useful information on the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office's Conversion Program.
- Separations Consortium (BioESep) – BioESep is a consortium of eight U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories leading coordinated research to move cost-effective, high-performing separations technologies to market.
- Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy Consortium (ChemCatBio) – ChemCatBio is a research and development consortium dedicated to identifying and overcoming catalysis challenges for biomass-conversion processes. This work will help accelerate the discovery and deployment of novel materials in support of the Energy Materials Network and the Materials Genome Initiative.
- Agile BioFoundry – The Agile BioFoundry is a multi-lab foundry working to standardize and streamline the entire biomanufacturing pipeline by uniting computer-assisted biological pathway design, process integration, process scale-up, and machine learning.
- Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) – The goal of the FCIC is to enable industry to economically value trade-offs between certain feedstocks and conversion pathways and predict performance of specific feedstock and conversion technologies. In turn, this action can reduce uncertainty, lower technology risk, and attract investment.
- Consortium for Computational Physics and Chemistry (CCPC) – The CCPC is a joint core research and development activity among five national laboratories. The CCPC partners experimentalists across the Bioenergy Technologies Office portfolio with advanced computational modeling and simulation capabilities.
Key Publications:
- Biomass Conversion: From Feedstocks to Final Products
- Conversion Technology Pathway Design Reports
- Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels Workshop Summary Report
- Agile BioFoundry Vision Workshop Report
- 2015 Project Peer Review Report
For more publications, see the Bioenergy Publications Library.