Biomass pretreatment

Here in the analytics lab, ABPDU's Rakesh Banka (right) explains the lab capabilities as Paul Bryan (left), of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, listens with the first group to tour the facility following Thursday's ribbon cutting.

The DOE believes the lab will help move development iterations through the pipeline more rapidly. Some of the diagnostic tools here include a high-performance anion-exchange chromatograph; gas chromatography; flame ionization detectors for measuring organic compounds; NIR spectroscopy, which uses the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum; and a biochemical analyzer.