Multi-Year Analysis Plan Page 51
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804.1 Analysis Infrastructure
Analysis infrastructure includes the resources (methods, tools, analysts) needed to perform the analysis
for the Program. Maintaining these capabilities at the cutting edge is essential to ensure that the analysis
provides the most efficient and most complete answers to the technology developers and the program.
Appendix C lists the national labs’ engineering and analysis capabilities, methods and tools. Analysis
methods for biomass processes are as new as the processes themselves. While some methods and tools
from other industries (especially the process industries which includes petroleum refining and
petrochemical processing) can be used with modification, others, like biomass physical property
estimation methods, must be developed. Coordination, development of new methods, and communication
are the three pieces to continuing to build the analysis infrastructure for biomass. Within the biomass
scientific community, there is analysis at several levels with different methods. Developing partnerships
in this community is key to ensuring the results are transparent, transferable and comparable. Building an
analysis infrastructure for biomass R&D improves the analysis value and efficiency, while eliminating
redundancy and gaps. Efforts by the NBC to combine the former biopower and biofuels analysis
capabilities and methodologies, and align with the emerging Hydrogen Program analysis group are
complete. The next step is to develop similar alignment between the national laboratories in the NBC and
rest of the organizations performing R&D in support of OBP.
Multi-lab coordination plans include holding annual analysts’ roundtable meetings, standardizing
methods and developing web accessible tools, methods, data and documents. Near and mid-term new
methods and tools development plans include training in the use of risk analysis for scientific processes,
developing methods to track progress on all OBP projects, and continued pioneer plant analysis to
understand first of a kind risks in plant costs and performance for stakeholders. Efforts to improve
communication of analysis results to DOE and stakeholders include the following: improved
understanding of EERE analysis methods, tools and inputs; improved communication between the
analysis elements; and creation of technology design reports that specify technology baseline and
technical targets on a program wide basis.
4.2 Biomass Resource Assessment
Resource assessment determines the quantity and location of biomass resources on state, county, and land
type levels. Additionally, resource analysis quantifies the cost of the resources, as a function of the
amount that is available for utilization. An example of output from feedstock resource assessment is crop
suitability by geographic region of the United States, shown in Figure 22.
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