To the Biorefinery

Reliable supply chains that cost-effectively deliver high-quality feedstocks are an important aspect of building a billion-ton bioeconomy. BT16 features scenario analyses of the logistics and transport costs of select feedstocks from chapters 3, 4, and 5 delivered to a commercial biorefinery. A near-term scenario considers the potential of existing commercially available equipment to collect, store, grind, and transport biomass to a single-feedstock biorefinery. The longer-term scenario evolves to a depot-based system where raw biomass is converted to a commodity and allowed to blend with other feedstocks. The long-term scenario also considers the impacts of a high-yield scenario (3% increase per year for most crops) in addition to the base-case yield increase of 1% per year.