Area of Interest 1 - Feeding Coal/Biomass Mixtures Across a Pressure Gradient

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	Federal Grant Title:	Area of Interest 1 - Feeding Coal/Biomass Mixtures Across a Pressure Gradient
	CFDA Number:	81.089
	CFDA Description:	Fossil Energy Research and Development
	Federal Agency Name:	National Energy Technology Laboratory
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology Energy
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-PS26-08NT00258-01
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Mar 24, 2008
	Creation Date:	Mar 24, 2008
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	May 16, 2008
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Jul 24, 2008
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	Information not provided
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility: Information not provided
Grant Description: Area of Interest 1 - Feeding Coal/Biomass Mixtures Across a Pressure Gradient (DE-PS26-08NT00258-01): Coal has advantages of great abundance, relatively low cost and high energy density. Furthermore, the production of synthesis gas from coal is a proven technology at commercial scale. Coal has a low hydrogen to carbon ratio and the production of FT diesel from coal produces approximately twice as much CO2 as does the refining of petroleum into diesel. This disadvantage can be managed by the capture and sequestration or reuse of the CO2 produced when FT diesel is made. When this is done, the CO2 produced with FT diesel is equivalent to that from petroleum-refined diesel. If biomass is used as a portion of the source of the synthesis gas, the resulting FT diesel will have essentially no net impact on atmospheric CO2 levels because the carbon in the biomass that goes into the synthesis gas is generated from atmospheric CO2 by photosynthesis. Unfortunately, biomass has numerous disadvantages as a feedstock to produce synthesis gas including a low energy density and high moisture content that leads to high production and processing costs. It is also difficult to feed biomass reliably into a pressurized gasification reactor and there have been very few demonstrations of this technology at commercial scale. The Feeding Coal/Biomass Mixtures Across a Pressure Gradient area of interest solicits development of optimal methods to pretreat and feed biomass into a high-temperature high-pressure coal gasifier.
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