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Health and Safety

Bioenergy feedstock production will have inherent differences from current agricultural processes. These differences could increase the potential for workforce injury or death if not properly understood and if effective protective counter measures are not in place.

The Health and Safety research team addresses two key worker safety elements in the biofuel feedstock supply chain:

Feedstock Conversion/Refining

The Feedstock Conversion/Refining team is preparing a detailed economic analysis of the performance of a biorefinery based on pyrolytic processing of biomass into liquid fuels.