Co-Processing Cooperation: National Labs Working Together to Create Clean Energy Fuels
(U.S. Department of Energy) Since 2018, a multi-laboratory consortium, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and guided by an industrial advisory board, has focused on adding co-processing of bio-oils into existing refinery units with petroleum feedstocks to produce sustainable transportation fuels. Together, this consortium addresses the most critical barriers identified by oil refiners for adopting co-processing across the United States to produce clean transportation fuels.
Read more about each national lab’s research and contributions:
- Part 1 – National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Studies fluid catalytic cracking units, which react bio-oils with heavy gas oils to produce green carbon containing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
- Part 2 – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Works on a second refinery operation—hydrocracking and hydrotreating—which turns bio-oils and biocrude from hydrothermal liquefaction into green fuels.
- Part 3 – Los Alamos National Laboratory: Researches measuring green carbon reliably and economically in co-processed fuels. READ MORE