(U.S. Department of Energy) The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) seeks input from industry, academia, national laboratories, and other biofuels and bioproducts stakeholders to identify existing capabilities to produce lignocellulosic sugars and lignin for use by the research community.
Many conversion technologies that produce biofuels or bioproducts utilize cellulosic sugars or lignin in their process. As a result, both lignocellulosic sugars and lignin have become necessary intermediates for advancing research towards economically producing biofuels and bioproducts. BETO seeks information to develop a comprehensive list of suppliers who are willing and able to produce and sell cellulosic sugar and/or lignin for use by the research community. This is solely a request for information (RFI) and not a funding opportunity announcement.
To read the full RFI, see DE-FOA-0001615 “Cellulosic Sugar and Lignin Production Capabilities” on the EERE Exchange. Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically to sugarandlignin@ee.doe.gov by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on August 24, 2016. READ MORE