The Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) is developing techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) tools to enable valuation of intermediate streams and quantify impact of feedback variability at both a unit-operations and system level.
Approach
This crosscutting analyses research provides feedback and guidance to all FCIC tasks, helping bound problems and define the research space. It ensures FCIC activities are techno-economically relevant at a commercial biorefinery scale.
The approach explores trade-off analyses with FCIC teams to evaluate mitigation strategies required to overcome feedstock variability and determine the costs/benefits to these options.
Outcome
The research will result in a system-level understanding of how feedstock variability affects underlying economics and sustainability metrics through the entire value chain.
Impact
The FCIC's TEA and LCA tools will enable developers to quantify the impact of feedstock variability on a project’s economic and sustainability metrics.
Contact
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