FYI Digest Newsletter Back Issues 47. A primary objective of the DOE Office of Fuels Development is to research and develop technology for the production and conversion of biomass to liquid transportation fuels and other by-products.
Sugars are an essential intermediate in the conversion process.
Successful release of sugars from biomass represents a major crosscutting technology for the production of bio-based products, including ethanol. The objective of this solicitation is to support new approaches to improve technology for the efficient, cost-effective production of sugars for fuels and chemicals. In some cases, new approaches to pretreatment could provide fundamentally new mechanisms for accessing the sugars locked in the biomass. There is interest in funding projects that fit both of these categories. Biomass sugars technologies - includes research that will lead to the development or optimization of process unit operations for the production of sugar streams from biomass.