USDA Rural Cooperative Development Grants for Fiscal Year 2023 OPPORTUNITY: The primary objective of the RCDG program is to improve the economic condition of rural areas by helping individuals and businesses start, expand, or…
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USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Grants
Federal Funding Opportunity Template- USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program OPPORTUNITY: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is America’s flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for…
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DOE Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction
OPPORTUNITY: The Industrial Demonstrations Program will fund projects that focus on the highest emitting and hardest to abate industries where decarbonization technologies can have the greatest impact: iron and steel, cement and concrete, chemicals and…
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DOE Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO)
OPPORTUNITY: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced a funding opportunity that will advance high impact applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…
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DOE 2023 Conversion Research and Development
OPPORTUNITY: The Department of Energy announced funding to support and optimize the production of affordable biofuels and biochemicals while significantly reducing carbon emissions. This funding will advance the Biden-Harris administration’s goals to address the climate…
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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Funds
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, a federally funded program designed to encourage research to meet national needs, aims to spark technological innovation, encourage creative ideas and participation by women and socially or economically…
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Hazards and Operability (HAZOP)
What do HAZOP experts in the bioeconomy do? HAZOP (Hazards and Operability Study), a widely used process hazards analysis methodology, use professionally qualified team brainstorming to identify and resolve process safety hazards by considering unusual…
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What is TEA?
What is TEA in the renewable industries? Very simply, it is the acronym for techno-economic analysis. Bringing new technology to the market is a commitment. It’s expensive and normally takes quite some time. Uncertainty is…
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Hazard Mitigation
Like in most industries, safety hazard mitigation in the bioeconomy is a key component of every process hazard analysis of every project. This is most frequently done using HAZOP (Hazards and Operability) studies. HAZOP is…
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Renewable Identification Numbers (RINS)
What are Renewable Identification Numbers (RINS), and what does a RIN expert do? A Renewable Identification Number (or RIN) is a serial number assigned to the volume of a batch of biofuel for the purpose…
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