The company plans to test its cellulosic biomass preprocessing system for capacity of preprocessing, throughput capabilities, and performance parameters that will define scalability.
The specific objectives of the preprocessing research includes efforts to quantify the equipment’s capabilities with various biomass feedstocks.
Gulf Ethanol will focus on sorghum as feedstock but will also test switchgrass, corn, sawdust and other biomass. The company is planning to structure testing to further identify strategies to increase preprocessed feedstock bulk densities, energy requirements and to determine the drying capacity of the equipment.
