BETO’s Renewable Carbon Resources (RCR) subprogram develops science and engineering-based strategies and technologies to cost-effectively transform renewable carbon resources into high-quality, environmentally sustainable, conversion-ready feedstocks for biofuels and bioproducts. These strategies and technologies are designed to improve the efficiency, sustainability, and reliability of feedstock production, harvesting or collection, storage, preprocessing, and transportation, and identify the key feedstock quality and operational variables for efficient conversion performance.
This FOA contains only one Topic Area – Topic Area 1 – which is composed of the following four Subtopic Areas:
• Subtopic Area 1a: Algae
• Subtopic Area 1b: Herbaceous Energy Crops
• Subtopic Area 1c: Intermediate Energy Crops
• Subtopic Area 1d: Short-Rotation Woody Crops