SBIR Phase II: Cost- and Energy-Efficient Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass to Bio-Fuel Feedstock of Consistent and Preferred Geometry

SBIR 第二阶段：将纤维素生物质经济高效地转化为具有一致和优选几何形状的生物燃料原料

• 批准号: 1026686
• 负责人: William Endres
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Endres Machining Innovations
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026686&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Cost; Energy

This SBIR Phase II project will develop and commercialize a new energy efficient long-lifed cutting attachment for chipping cellulosic biomass into bio-fuel feedstock while achieving reduced specific energy, significantly longer knife-change intervals, and controllably-fine chips needed by various bio-fuel applications. The innovation involves an adaptation of advanced metal-cutting technology to replace traditional chipper knives.The broader impact/commercial potential of the project will derive from creating technology to use inexpensive and readily accessible local feedstock for the production of bio-fuels, reducing the cost of feedstock processing upstream of enzymatic hydrolysis. Energy independence and sustainability along with environmental issues strongly motivate the inclusion of biomass to diversify the national and global energy portfolios. Cellulosic bio-fuels applications are poised to grow, but exhibit technical and economic challenges, one of which relates to the need for finer feedstock particles and the inefficiencies of increased chipping energy and knife wear that come with finer chipping.

这个SBIR二期项目将开发一种新的高能效、长寿命的切割附件并将其商业化，用于将纤维素生物质切成生物燃料原料，同时实现更低的比能量、显著延长的换刀间隔以及各种生物燃料应用所需的可控精细芯片。这项创新涉及采用先进的金属切割技术来取代传统的削片刀。该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将来自创造技术，使用廉价和容易获得的当地原料生产生物燃料，降低酶解上游原料加工的成本。能源独立性和可持续性以及环境问题有力地推动了生物质的纳入，以使国家和全球能源组合多样化。纤维素生物燃料的应用有望增长，但也面临着技术和经济挑战，其中之一涉及对更细的原料颗粒的需求，以及随着更细的切屑而增加的切屑能量和刀具磨损的低效。