The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Biomass and Waste Preprocessing Innovations

Idaho National Laboratory’s Biomass Feedstock National User Facility (BFNUF) is crucial for de-risking bioeconomy scale-up. Key innovations include the ~$10M WAVES project for wet agricultural waste processing. An MSW separation system achieved 80% separation of unrecyclable materials, optimizing gasification feedstocks. Collaborative research with GTI Energy on waste gasification and biomass to entrained flow gasification has successfully demonstrated stable mass flow with ultra-dense phase particles, addressing critical conversion challenges.