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The Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) is led by a principal investigator and project manager, three DOE technology managers, eight task

Providing life cycle assessment, techno-economic analysis, and supply analysis and logistics.

Leveraging robust National Laboratory expertise at field testing labs, process development units, and user research facilities.

Developing tools for biomass flow modeling and equipment wear modeling.

Enabling reliable flow and conversion behavior with pyrolysis operational mapping.

Ensuring data are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.

Predicting and addressing biorefinery equipment wear.

Enabling continuous, steady, trouble-free bulk flow transport to the reactor throat.

Enabling intermediate stream valuation and quantifying feedback variability impact.

Mitigating the risks of feedstock variability on the conversion of sugar and lignin.