Forest Bioproducts Research Institute

Technical Capabilities and Processing Equipment

The TRC is a fee-for-service facility with several pilot-scale unit operations dedicated to advancing developing fuel, chemical and advanced material technologies for processing woody biomass into various bioproducts. The facility meets all necessary approved environmental permitting standards, accepts any cellulosic feedstock and features state-of-the-art process control and process information systems.

• Analytical method development
• Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
• Biomass size reduction, screening, pretreatment, extraction and cooking
• Chemical and physical testing for pilot-scale campaigns
• Chemical reaction
• Distillation
• Fermentation
• Gas and liquid chromatography
• In-process and final product material characterization
• Liquid-liquid extraction
• Multiple-unit operation
• Pelletization
• Wet chemical characterization