About Renewable Feedstock

Biofuels feedstock is defined as any renewable, biological material that can be used directly as a fuel or converted to another form of fuel or energy product. One of the advantages of advanced biofuels is the diversity of feedstock alternatives. Advanced biofuels may be sourced from: agricultural waste or residue, waste oils, perennial grasses and other dedicated energy crops, algae, waste biomass, farmed woody biomass, post-recycled waste and many others.

XLS Biofuels supports the development of strategies, technologies and systems to sustainably harvest and deliver volumes of biomass feedstock of the quality preferred by biorefinery processes in a cost-effective manner in the U.S.

Ensuring a sustainable supply of high-quality biomass feedstock requires research and development to streamline all elements of the feedstock supply chain – from plant breeding and genomics, to crop production and harvesting practices, to biomass pre-processing, transport, and storage systems. Sustainable feedstock production includes all the steps required to produce biomass feedstocks to the point where it is ready to be collected from the field or forest.

Feedstock Logistics encompasses all the unit operations necessary to harvest the biomass and move it from the field or forest to the throat of the conversion process at the biorefinery, while ensuring that the delivered feedstock meets biorefinery physical and chemical quality specifications.