Award Number: DE-EE0009130, CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, Advanced Manufacturing Office, Location(s): WA, Office(s): Golden Field Office
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March 31, 2020
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Award Number: DE-EE0009130
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Location(s): WA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to Forest Concepts, LLC for the research and development of radio frequency (RF) pre-heating of industrial scale biomass feedstock to reduce drying time. A convective air-drying model and an RF heating model would be developed to perform a techno-economic analysis (TEA) comparing an optimized forced-air convection dryer to an optimized RF pre-heating phase followed by a convection drying phase.