What is the scale/scope of the pilot biorefinery?
The scale of production for the pilot biorefinery is 250,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year. This size is considered optimal to enhance the ability of researchers to make adjustments to the production methods for the purpose of continually improving the process and economics, and obtaining required data to move to commercial scale operations. Additionally, a process development unit (PDU), allowing introduction of new research and development from laboratory-scale research, will be built onsite, and two feedstocks–corn cobs and switchgrass–will be used to produce cellulosic ethanol.
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