The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners for a new biomass pre-treatment project aimed at improving the feedstock process.
The ETI has called for expressions of interest from organisations that could develop and demonstrate a pre-treatment system incorporating biomass chipping, screening, washing and drying.
If a suitable partner is found, the ETI plans to procure a semi-commercial scale technology demonstration project involving pre-treatment operations.
The project will look at the costs and benefits of applying feedstock improvement processes to a set of biomass feedstock types.
It will also aim to highlight the opportunities and challenges involved in any scale-up and commercial deployment.
ETI said interested parties will need to demonstrate they have the “right skills and competencies” and show they have access to the required feedstocks, to a waste site with waste handling permits and to test facilities.
It added that they will also need to show how they would design, supply, install, commission and test the process and technology over course of the 12-18 month long project, ETI said.
The call for expression of interest close at 2pm on 31 May.
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