The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Fractionation of Forest Biomass Wastes

A team of researchers have designed a project to support development of woody feedstocks forUniversity of Maine’s Thermal Deoxygenation pathway to produce renewable aviation fuel and chemicals. The goal of the project is to prepare woody biomass for conversion in TDO by engineering particle attributes to improve flow reliability and separating detrimental components within the biomass using thermal fractionation. This research will solve challenges in solids transport in compression screw feeders and progressive cavity pumps as well as investigate thermal fractionation to improve downstream quality by reducing char formation for improved yields. Luke Williams of Idaho National Laboratory and Clay Wheeler of the University of Maine led the presentation team at DOE Project Peer Review.