Award Number: DE-EE0007966CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B5.15Bioenergy Technologies OfficeLocation(s): ILOffice(s): Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
July 28, 2017
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Low Carbon Hydrocarbon Fuels from Industrial Off Gas
Award Number: DE-EE0007966
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B5.15
Bioenergy Technologies Office
Location(s): IL
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to LanzaTech to design and develop plans for a demonstration-scale integrated biorefinery to convert industrial waste gases into aviation biofuels via gas fermentation coupled with an alcohol-to-jet process. This NEPA determination is for Phase 1 including both Budget Periods 1 and 2. If the recipient is selected to move forward into Phase 2, further NEPA review will be necessary once Phase 2 tasks are defined.
Activities associated with Phase 1 of the proposed project would include: data analysis; computational modeling; preliminary engineering and design; financial, management and business planning; site permitting; laboratory research and development (R&D); and short-term pilot-scale production taking place strictly at existing facilities for the purpose of process validation. Data analysis, modeling, and other desktop planning and design work would be undertaken at the business offices of LanzaTech and subrecipients. Product quality evaluations (limited to chemical engineering design and computer simulations during Phase 1) would be performed at the offices of Petron Scientech in Princeton, NJ.