2013-2017
FDCE successfully led a DOE effort to “Demonstration of an Advanced Supply Chain for Lower Cost, Higher Quality Biomass Feedstock Delivery.” The project team coined the project “Biomass Alliance for Logistics Efficiency and Specifications” — BALES for short.
Antares and other team members designed and tested robust harvesting/ semi-trailer designs and tested a near-infrared (NIR) probe to gather the moisture, ash, glucan and xylan content of a corn stover bale successfully.
Learn more about the BALES process.