Omnivore: a multi-feedstock biorefinery

从作物残茬和废料中生产的可持续木质纤维素生物乙醇的市场正在不断增长。从这些材料中生产生物燃料具有挑战性，因为通常没有一种材料可以在一个地方以适当的数量支持所需的加工规模，以覆盖资本投资。此外，木质纤维素的传统加工产生的可发酵糖浓度太稀，无法有效地生产燃料，并且通过复杂的加工或蒸发浓缩来克服这一点是昂贵的。杂食系统将克服供应挑战，通过开发一个原料不可知的木质纤维素加工系统。杂食动物将克服糖浓度的挑战，通过操作混合系统使用第一代糖来补充木质纤维素糖的浓度。可验证的木质纤维素生物燃料百分比将吸引双重交易义务信用，这将提高盈利能力。

There is a growing market for sustainable lignocellulosic bioethanol produced from crop residues and waste materials. Producing biofuels from these materials is challenging because none are typically available in appropriate quantities in a single location to support processing at the scale needed to cover capital investment. In addition, conventional processing of lignocellulosics produces fermentable sugar concentrations that are too dilute for effective fuel production, and overcoming this through complex processing or evaporative concentration is expensive. The Omnivore system will overcome the supply challenge by developing a feedstock agnostic lignocellulose processing system. Omnivore will overcome the sugar concentration challenge, by operating a hybrid system using first generation sugars to supplement the concentration of lignocellulosic sugars. The verifiable % of lignocellulosic biofuel will attract a double trading obligation credit, which will improve profitability.