Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) Kickoff Meeting

Chenlin Li – INL, Michael Resch – NREL

December 11, 2017

• Orientation

• Leadership and Industry Advisory Board Introductions

• FCIC R&D Projects Overview by Lab PIs

• Group Photo @12:45pm

• Data Management Plan

• FY18 R&D Baseline Data Mining

• Discussion Sessions for IAB to Provide Constructive Input

• Breakout sessions to get into the weeds

Kickoff Meeting Overview

Launch of FCIC

R&D Consortium of Eight National Labs

Chenlin Li (INL), Michael Resch (NREL)

FCIC Leadership Team

Kevin Kenney (INL) Zia Abdullah (NREL) Corinne Drennan (PNNL)

Tim Theiss (ORNL)

Katy Christiansen (LBNL)

Ben Wu (SNL) Meltum Urgun Demirtas (ANL) Babetta Marrone (LANL)

Industry Advisory Board Members

Committed Members:

William Crump (Leidos)

John Evans (AB Biotek; formerly of POET)

Reddy Karri (Particle Solid Research, Inc.)

Steve Kelley (North Carolina State University)

Glenn Farris (AGCO) *

Ravi Chandran (ThermoChem Recovery International) *

Tom Miles (TR Miles Consulting) *

Brandon Emme (ICM) *

* Calling in

BETO Team

Feedstock Supply Logistics Program

Conversion Research and

Development Program

Advanced Development and

Optimization Program

BETO Director Jonathan Male

Program Manager Alison Goss Eng

Technology Manager Steve Thomas

Acting Program Manager /

Technology Manager

Mark Elless

Program Manager Kevin Craig

Technology Manager Prasad Gupta

Program Manager Jim Spaeth

Technology Manager Liz Moore

FCIC in DOE Bioenergy

Technologies Office

Jonathan Male

Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) Kickoff Meeting

Chenlin Li – INL, Michael Resch – NREL

December 11, 2017

Our Lignocellulosic Biomass

Our Lignocellulosic Biomass

A Closer Look at Ash

Operational Challenges

• The Biorefinery Optimization Workshop Summary Report documents most of the start-up problems encountered by industry-led biorefinery projects.

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/02/f34/biorefinery_optimization_workshop_summary_report.pdf

Biomass Variability leads to Feed Handling & Conversion Inconsistencies

• Biomass Variability

– Chemical Composition

– Physical and Mechanical Properties

– Structural Properties

– Others…

• Source of Variabilities

– Agronomic/Field Management

– Geospatial Events (soil type, weather, location,

etc.)

– Harvest & Collection Technique

– Storage Operations

– Preprocessing Techniques

– Others….

• BETO’s Design Cases and TEAs assume:

– 90% up-time factor and

– Steady-state operating conditions (ie, constant feedstock quality and conversion process operations)

• In Practice

– None of our projects operate at this level of reliability for any appreciable length of time.

High System Reliability is Crucial

Collaboration and Coordination

FCIC Planning Meeting held

on May 18, 2017 - Laid

Foundation of 6 sets of AOPs

Feedstock-Conversion Interface Aims to Address Challenges

Opportunities

• Identify and quantify the impacts caused by biomass

variability on equipment operations and conversion

performance.

• Develop mechanistic models and transfer functions that

relate fundamental understanding to improve the flowability

and feed-handling.

• Develop robust and cost-effective preprocessing and

conversion technologies to withstand wide variability of

biomass.

• Perform integrated analyses and develop process design

tools to evaluate and identify the gaps of field-to-fuel system

operational reliability.

• Establish feedstock specifications, equipment

design/selection criteria to enable quality guideline for

feedstock supply and handling systems.

Plugged equipment can cause

significant down time (causes

unknown)

Focus: Science of scaling and integration of feedstock handling and conversion technologies

FCIC Rationale and Focus

Goal: Develop and verify integrated feedstock supply-preprocessing-conversion processes

that achieve >90% operational reliability (i.e., time-on-stream)

Guiding Principle: Feedstock chemical, physical and mechanical characteristics are

primary considerations for process development, scale-up, and integration.

Why now? Early-stage applied research is currently the gap in enabling scalability and

maximizing yields.

x = feedstock supply chain reliability

y = conversion process reliability

z = equipment reliability

w = particle size distribution

v = moisture

… = ash; ash species …

ø = unknowns

Information Sharing

Production Storage

Plant

Gate

Harvest and Collection

Transportation Preprocessing

Reactor

Throat

ConversionFSL FCIC

Acid/Water

Impregnatio

n

Corn Stover: Low Temp. Conversion to EtOH

Corn Stover

from

Metering

Bin

Acid

Water

Plug Screw

Feeder

Squeezate

Pretreatment

Reactor Tube(s) Discharge

Valve(s) Flash

Tank

Flash

Vapor (To

WWT)

Pretreated

Slurry

Hydrolysis

Reactor

A200

Enzyme

Production

Glucose

Nutrients

Water

Air

A400

Ethanol

Fermentatio

n

Seed Train

Nutrients

Distillation

Steam

(A800)

A300

Stillage

Separation

Solids

Liquid

Storage

(A700) Ethanol Product

A500

Wastewater

Treatment

(A700) Flash

Vapor (A200)

Nutrients

Boiler/Turbo.

(A800)

Steam

Electricity

Recycle Water

Biogas

Auxiliary Fuel

Steam (A800)

Water

Ammoni

a

Glucose

Hydrolysate

Nutrients

Water

Within FCIC Data Collection Scope

Pine Residues: High T, FP+HT to HC Fuels (Jones 2013-Revised)

Pyrolyzer

R-110

Pine from

feed

hopper

Off gas

From T-147

Cyclones

S-110

Char

Quench

T-134

Phase Sep.

(S-155?)

Demist/Filter

T-147

Off gas

To R-100

A100 Fast Pyrolysis Within FCIC Data Collection Scope

Aerosol Pyr

Vapo

r

Dodecane

Stabilizer

R-202

A200-1

Hydrotreating

H

2

Hydrotreater-1

Waste water PSA

Upgrade

d oil

A300-500 Product

Finishing

A600 H2

Production

A700 Steam

System

Char Comb.

R-124

Intermediate

product

System Readiness Evaluation

Upstream-

Downstream Process

Integration

Feedstock Variability

and Specification

Development Allison Ray (INL)

Feedstock Physical

Performance

Modeling Tyler Westover (INL)

Process Integration Ed Wolfrum (NREL)

System-wide

Throughput

Analysis Dave Thompson (INL)

Process Control

and Optimization Quang Nguyen (INL)

Biomass Quality

FCIC Pillars of Success

Characterizing Biomass

& Mining Data

Improving Operational

Performance

Implementing Integrated

Control Strategies

FCIC End of Three Year Goal

Achieve at least 50% improvement of operating reliability from field into first

deconstruction operation, relative to baseline established in FY18, while maintaining

conversion performance and cost goals.

Industry Engagement

and Project Management Chenlin Li (INL)

Michael Resch (NREL)

Oversee execution and

coordinate activities

Industry Advisory Board Guide FCIC toward industry-

relevant R&D and provide a

business perspective

Five R&D Teams with

Diverse Expertise across

Eight National Labs

FCIC Organization Chart

Lead Labs: INL and NREL

Participant Labs: ANL, LANL, LBNL,

ORNL, PNNL, SNL

Bioenergy Technologies

Office

Leadership Team (Steve Thomas, Liz Moore,

Prasad Gupte, Mark Elless,

PMs, and LRMs)

Implement vision and

approve scope & budget

Directed Funding

Opportunity for Industrial

Collaborative Research

FCIC Website Went Live 11/16/2017

https://FCIC.inl.gov

Directed Funding Opportunity – NOI Released Today!

• $8 Million fund, to be obligated to projects by FY18 Q2 – Additional required 30% non-federal cost share (in-kind &/or cash)

• Foreign entities must have US subsidiary (all work performed in the US)

• Promoting industry/lab collaborative R&D – To attract capabilities from

• ALL 8 labs

• Bioenergy and bioproducts academia and industry

• Topics will align with the three FCIC pillars: 1. Biomass Quality Evaluation and Optimization

2. Biomass Preprocessing, Feed-handling, and Conversion Process Integration

3. System Readiness Evaluation through Techno-economic Analysis and Process Control Development

NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable

Energy, LLC.

Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium Non-Disclosure Agreement

Rebekah Durand

NREL Technology Transfer Office

FCIC NDA

• A multiparty NDA template was prepared, negotiated and will be pre-signed by the labs.

• The pre-signed NDA will be kept on file by NREL and will be sent to all awardees and sub-awardees.

• Each project specific NDA will be executed “as-is” by the awardee and any sub-awardees. No changes will be accepted to the pre-signed NDA.

• It is not necessary to have an NDA between labs regarding lab Protected Information.

FCIC NDA

• A few of the terms of the FCIC NDA:

– All Proprietary Information must be identified as such at the time of disclosure.

– Allows the Parties to each NDA to mutually share information relating to the FCIC Consortium for the purpose of studying and addressing the science of scale-up and integration of feedstock and conversion technologies.

– Disclosure period: 18 months

– Confidentiality period: five years

Agenda

9:45 AM System-wide Throughput Analysis

David Thompson, INL

10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM Feedstock Variability and Specification Development

Allison Ray & Amber Hoover, INL

11:00 AM Feedstock Physical Performance Modeling

Tyler Westover, INL

11:30 AM Process Integration

Ed Wolfrum, NREL

12:00 PM Lunch

12:45 PM Group Photo

1:15 PM Process Control and Optimization

Quang Nguyen, INL

1:45 PM FCIC Data Management Plan - Bioenergy Feedstock Library

Rachel Emerson, INL

2:00 PM FY18 R&D Baseline Data Mining Discussion

Dave Thompson, INL & Ed Wolfrum, NREL & Allison Ray & Quang Nguyen, INL

3:15 PM Breakout Session 1: FCIC Management and IAB (Closed-Door), Vail Room

Session Leads: Michael Resch, NREL & Chenlin Li, INL

Breakout Session 2: Gap Analysis, Data Input & Management, Aspen Room

Session Leads: Dave Thompson, INL & Liz Moore, BETO

4:15 PM Breakout Session 3: Modeling Activity, Steamboat Room

Session Leads: Tyler Westover, INL & Jonathan Stickel, NREL

Breakout Session 4: Low Temp R&D Plan Coordination, Aspen Room

Session Leads: Ed Wolfrum, NREL & Allison Ray/Vicki Thompson, INL

Breakout Session 5: High Temp R&D Plan Coordination, Steamboat Room

Session Leads: Danny Carpenter, NREL & Liz Moore, BETO

5:30 PM Reconvene Report Out from Breakout Sessions and Wrap Up

Agenda: Breakout Sessions