Frontline Selected for DOE Grant to Develop Advanced Drop-in Biofuels for Military Jets and Ships

Frontline has been selected by the DOE to receive up to $4.2 million to build an innovative pilot-scale biorefinery that will produce renewable biofuels meeting military specifications as a domestic alternative for jet fuel and shipboard diesel.

Frontline BioEnergy LLCM (up to $4.2 million; Ames, Iowa): Building on prior commercial-scale gasification success, Frontline BioEnergy, along with its project partners SGC Energia, Stanley Consultants, and Delphi Engineering and Construction LLC, will build and integrate an innovative new pilot scale TarFreeGas™ reactor and new gas conditioning processes with an existing Fischer Tropsch (FT) unit capable of producing 1 barrel per day of FT liquids from woody biomass, municipal solid waste, and refuse derived fuel at the Iowa Energy Center’s Biomass Energy Conversion Facility in Nevada, Iowa. These liquids will be upgraded to produce samples of biofuels that meet military specifications.