Decarbonization Avenue : Biorefinery

Challenges

Efforts and costs required for biomass pre-treatment

Biomass is a heterogeneous matter, so it requires pre-treatments to homogenize it for use in biorefineries. These could result in significantly higher investment and operational costs


Relevant for

  • Procurement, supply chain & logistics professional
  • Project management professional
  • Operations & maintenance professional
  • Biomass energy professional

Innovation sector

  • Biotechnology

Other Challenges

High biomass transport cost

Efforts and costs required for biomass pre-treatment

Coordination between multiple stakeholders

Lack of performance data for biomass

Scaling up challenges

Stakeholders

  • Corporate researcher